August Amari: Amanda's 35th Birthday

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Amanda's 35th Birthday

Becks: "You're old...you're almost gonna get a mustache...and your gonna die and go to the cemetery..."

It's looking like a great 35th birthday #👨🏻💀🎉 ‪#‎kidssaythefunniestthings‬‪#‎35thbirthday‬ ‪#‎beckahmmoment‬

The older I get the more I realize birthdays should really be about celebrating and honoring the person who sacrificed so much to give you life. My mother wanted to stop having kids after 6 hellions (okay let's be real the rest of us after the 2nd were a mistake😂, except for maybe Dave) but I must have lept from heavens door just in time—whew! What a journey it's been.

I'm so blessed to have been given life and to have been raised by such a wonderful mother. You know how deeply rooted your love and affinity for your mom is when even at the age of 35, married with 2 kids, I cry having to say goodbye—longing to just go back a few years to spend some time growing up in her home.

I've spent more birthdays than not with you and I love all the many ways you have made them special. Thank you a million times over for welcoming one more, my life has been so much more enriched by you being my mentor, my confident, my supporter, my mom! Sharry Eastman

— with Sharry Eastman.

I post this picture in honor of Flag Day tomorrow (obviously the most important national holiday ever institutionalized)....I'm thinkin the intimate relationship I've had with flags over the past 35 years, calls for a flag tattoo on my back 🇺🇸....

I still can't believe that after 35 birthdays I've never been given a flag cake—blasphemy
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Morning loves from my boys

Beck's insisted I have breakfast in bed :)

Birthday dances with my boys

I have never received a flag birthday cake on my birthday, my friend was the first one to make me one this year :)

YUMMY bbq dinner at Full Moon

Mike spoiled me with clothes, shoes, workout pants, and laser hair removal.

I LOVE my new Puma's

I found these two gems at Barnes and Noble when I was out for my birthday. I love writing and this book was ingenious. I am going to make it a goal to write one creative writing piece a day.

I am going to try taking up meditation to lessen the stress in my life and make me feel more focused and happy. I love the cover of this journal: perfect for this new journey. I have realized that I only have 5 years left in my 30's . . . I want to start living my life, being happy, finding joy in the daily grind, be conscious of my thoughts and my attitude. I am tired of living with the same weaknesses that have haunted me for so many years. I want to be a strong minded person and to be an example of calmness and positivity to my boys (two of my least strong attributes). I know this is going to be a hard journey because I have a hard time slowing down and I am always so busy but I know this is what I need right now in my life. I did some medit