My 79th birthday was such a lovely day – lunch with my two daughters, phone calls from my two sons and my best friend, gifts at my youngest daughter’s house with her family plus her renowned white cake with caramel frosting and watching one of my favorite movies, Breaking Away.
Everything worked out so well this year – the gifts were simply overwhelming. My youngest daughter saved all of her gifts for the big day: flowers, her hand-knitted gifts of placemats, dishcloths, a spectacular long scarf in variegated yarn, and an I-Pod Nano MP-3 player with all of my favorite songs and albums already downloaded for my listening pleasure.
Twelve-year-old grandson Jellyfish picked out a wonderful Scottie cookie jar and paid for it out of his own allowance. Eight-year-old granddaughter Dolphin drew one of her special pictures and cut/folded a 3-dimensional dog, probably a Scottie in answer to her brother’s cookie jar.
My youngest son and his family in St. Louis sent a box full of beautiful dish towels and pot holders – I love anything for the kitchen.
In addition to her daily countdown gifts, my oldest daughter gave me a vintage Jadeite bowl, candle holder, thermometer and glasses; a Scottie covered dish; a crocheted doily in fall colors; and a big stack of fabric samples.
Darlene, my blogger friend in Columbus, Ohio, sent a box jam-packed with wonderful things – quilt binding clips, a sewing kit, cupcake liners, Post-Its, two pieces of fabric, a book, a crocheted doily and a beautiful framed cross-stitch picture.
I came home at 10 PM to another piece of cake and then spent three hours trying to get to sleep – it’s hard to let go of a perfect day.
LILLIAN'S CUPBOARD 
It sounds like you had a wonderful birthday… and that a nap sounds like a good thing to schedule today! *lol*
Wishing you many happy returns of the day!
I am so glad you had a great day and a great week too.
Wow! What a terrific day. I know you are proud of all of the goodies but I am sure spending time with family means so much, too. Breaking Away…haven’t seen that one in a while.
Sounds like a perfect birthday! What wonderful loving gifts!
Happy Birthday Mrs. Lillian!
I can see that there is a lot of love that surrounds you. You are a very blessed lady and I know that you know that too. Thank you also for being my blogger friend..
what a lovely day this reads…and so much love in the gifts one very special lady me thinks..happy birthday Lillian,cheers Vickie
It sounds like just the best day! I love all the parts of it, and the days leading up to it. You are a very fortunate woman.
Happy birthday! I follow your daugther’s blog and read about your fun day and had to check it out! I’m impressed, my Mom would never be able to figure out how blog and she’s in her 50s!