Martian Mama:: I Lived To Be 40!!!!

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

I Lived To Be 40!!!!

Today is my 40th birthday!

I never thought I'd live this long. [Weird, huh?]. I have two beloved cousins who died in their 30s of cancer, I've had so many near death pregnancies, I've had other near death experiences [including cancer myself when I was only 24 years old] - I just never thought I'd live to see 40. In fact, for the past few months, I've been living life feeling like a "marked man" LOL!

To wake up today alive and well and 40 years old is so cool!

In reflecting back on my life, I am very happy. This isn't where I expected to be on my 40th birthday, but I feel a deep sense of contentment and happiness none-the-less.

My kids have been absolutely adorable about it today - I woke up with a beautiful hand made card on my pillow and I've already heard countless renditions of the "Happy Birthday" song [including the one where I smell like a Monkey LOL!].

I woke up to a clean house too - my wonderful SIL came yesterday and helped me clean house all day. It was very nice. I LOVE a spotless house, but with 6 kids it is an endless battle with the Chaos Monster.

We are having two of my favorite young ladies over today to do a spend the night party for my oldest daughter - her birthday party got postponed a couple of times for health reasons, and it just worked out that today would be a good day to reschedule, so we did!

Today I am looking around at my life and feeling very happy - today I am celebrating a happy, simple life, one filled with people who love me.

Praise God for so many Blessings!

8 comments:

The Praying MomOctober 7, 2009 at 10:08 AM
Happy birthday!!!!!
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HeatherOctober 7, 2009 at 12:32 PM
Happy Birthday, Kel! The world is a better place with you in it! :)
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LolaOctober 7, 2009 at 1:13 PM
Happy Birthday!

God bless you Kelly.

I hope you have many more birthdays and many more beautiful moments.
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ShellyOctober 7, 2009 at 1:13 PM
Happy Birthday on This feast of OL of the Rosary!
God bless you abundantly, Kelly!!!
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KristinOctober 8, 2009 at 6:31 AM
Happy Birthday! I commented yesterday, but it didn't seem to go through. Hope your day was great and that you survived the sleepover!
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PaulaOctober 8, 2009 at 11:03 AM
A Happy Happy Birthday for yesterday and a happy unbirthday for today!
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VickiOctober 8, 2009 at 1:04 PM
From experience I know that life only gets better after 40!! I'm glad you're doing so well - you're an inspiration! Happy Birthday!!
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ErinOctober 9, 2009 at 7:23 PM
Happy belated birthday!
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Quotes To Live By:

"Everyone can be great because everyone can serve." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"If you judge people you have no time to love them" - Bl Mother Teresa of Calcutta

"There are two ways to live your life. One, as though nothing is a miracle. The other, as though everything is." - Albert Einstein

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."--Oscar Wilde

"Happiness Is A Choice" - Randy Disher

"Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him." ~Martin Luther King Jr.

"It's terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."~ G.K. Chesterton

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier" - Mother Teresa

"Worry is the Sin of not trusting God."

"Only God and dead people don't make mistakes."

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." Mahatma Gandhi

"A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within." - Arab proverb

"Do, or do not. There is no try." - Yoda

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." - Edmund Burke

"It's better to die on your feet, than live on your knees."

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." - Dalai Lama

"Love God, serve God: everything is in that." - St. Clare of Assisi

"Courage is endurance for one moment more." - Unknown Marine Second Lieutenant in Vietnam

"Anything is possible if you are willing to work for it." - Paula Deen

"The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you, if you don't let it get the best of you." ~Will Rogers

"Never look down on anybody, unless you're helping them up."~Jesse Jackson

"Do not be deceived. God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows." -- Galatians 6:7

"Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die."~Malachy McCourt

"Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve." - Joseph Joubert

"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." ---Oliver Goldsmith

"If God has forgiven you your past, you have no right to continue clinging to it." - Alex Rebello

"Love is not merely a feeling; it is an act of will that consists of preferring, in a constant manner, the good of others to the good of oneself." - Pope John Paul II

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you." - St. Augustine

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you." - Walt Disney

"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have." - Vince Lombardi

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"One should always forgive one's enemies; it makes them furious." - Oscar Wilde

"Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls, and other people's bellies." - Yisrael Salanter

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Gandhi

"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” - Buddha

"Hating someone else is like burning down your own house in order to get rid of a rat." - unknown

"It's never too late to become the person you might have been." - George Elliot

"If someone is stupid enough to walk out of your life - be smart enough to let them go."

"A good mother has dirty floors and happy children."

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking the kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenk's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with the children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." -Marjorie Hinckley

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