See You Later 43.

Tomorrow is my birthday. Sometimes turning another year older makes me feel agitated. However tonight, I am not feeling too bothered by the idea of turning another year older tomorrow. In fact, I feel grateful to be turning 44. Lucky.

Today I made my birthday bake and tomorrow I will frost it and maybe make a simple decoration on it. I know that my husband would have picked me up a cake tomorrow if I wanted that, but I feel happy that I know how to make a cake and have the ability to do so. Here is the recipe I used.

Tomorrow, if all goes well I hope to take my older son to day camp for the morning session, visit my local YMCA for a workout, pick up my older son from day camp, take both boys out to lunch with me at Wegmans, go to the pool in the afternoon, have a nice dinner with my family and blow out my candles in the evening. I feel pretty grateful for this time.

Tomorrow when I turn 44, it will be 20 since my golden birthday. I remember turning 24 on Prince Edward Island when I was leading an adventure bike trip for Frost Valley YMCA. Our campers had been kind of handful on that trip but it was still a special way to turn 24. I remember that my co-counselor gave me the afternoon off and I bought a magazine and rode my ride to the beach to read it. I ended up talking to a middle aged American woman from Massachusetts on the beach and she told me about how she used to work at the YMCA when she was young, just like my job at the time. It is a small world.

I am hoping that a birthday that is 20 years after a golden birthday is still a special year. I love number doubles and the number 4 so I think this should be especially good.

It’s getting late, perhaps I will write tomorrow and share any “deep” insights that I have about turning another year older.