I Have Great Kids

Yesterday was my birthday!
I wasn't looking forward to it, another year gone, another year older.  Body is not doing that well.  Nothing major, just seems to take a lot longer to recover from whatever I get!  In my mind I still feel like I'm in my 30's, but I look in a mirror and see an old woman staring back, I wonder what happened!
Yesterday I was feeling rather down, I have a slight summer cold, not really bad but headaches and a sore throat.  I decided that the best is to rest as much as possible.  I watched TV and read a bit.  Directed the kids in cleaning the living area.  David made party food and his own chicken dish.  He made a sauce of honey, mirin, sake and some spices, really nice balance of sweet and spice!  After dinner the kids gave me a lovely present and card.  The card said "Thank you for everything"  I was moved by this because many times I feel I don't do that much for the kids, more I have to rely on them because my Japanese is so bad!  The present is really wonderful, a digital photo frame.  I can put up to 2000 photos on it.  It's something that I have  wanted for the past couple of years.  I have a lot of photos of my hubby on the computer and it would be awful if I lost them because of the computer crashing or a virus.   I wasn't expecting anything at all for my birthday, just a day to relax so this was a really nice surprise.