Flavor #31 "Flavor 32"

Jordan.  31 years done, over.  Check.  On to the 32nd.  Like all the rest, it will be the proverbial mixed bag.  Hopefully with more ups than downs, but who knows?  Guess it's how you handle whatever comes as much as it's whatever comes.

So maybe it would work to just celebrate the good moments.  Remember the birthday whipped cream fights of yesteryear?  I'd run out and buy a dozen large cans of Redi Whip at Costco and then you kids were allowed to tear through the house in mad pursuit of the "honored" one and each other.  What a mess!  Whose idea was that anyhow?  Shoulda had a outdoors only rule on that tradition, huh?  A ton of clean up.  Oh well, no harm done.

What great sports (aka reckless idiots)!

I'm not suggesting that now.  Just that you find little ways (empahsis: no harm done) to enjoy the moments you have coming.  Just as there are way more flavors than 31 on the Baskin Robbins website-and yes, these that I've listed the whole last month are all officially their flavors!-there are so many ways and things to enjoy and celebrate every day, not just once a year, if we just take a moment to look for them and realize.

That's what I wish for you this year.  The sweet flavor of awareness and appreciation.  Take a bite.  Delicious!

I love you!  love you!  love you!

And one day I Will get even!

---MOM