Thanks, everyone. I have actually had a rather good day, although my husband is away on a business trip to Tampa this week. He had flowers delivered this afternoon. Then my daughter cooked chicken and dumplings and bought a cake, and gave me flowers and a DVD. My son gets his first paycheck Friday so gave me an IOU.

This birthday beats the heck out of ones when hubby would be deployed and the kids too young to hardly understand anything, let alone birthdays. OTOH, I wasn't so darn old.

Oh well, it beats the alternative.