scenes from a birthday weekend

sometimes, if you squint your eyes and smile with your heart, everything about life is beautiful.  And so it has been since Friday. When I turned 52.

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My mom, who suffered a catastrophic spinal cord injury resulting from a stroke in January, has gained enough momentum, strength and courage to join in a little baseball fun in the beautiful springtime weather Friday morning.

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TIRR Memorial Hermann – best in the world

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that’s a smile I haven’t seen in a while.

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never one to lighten it up when it comes to birthday cakes, my sweet Cristybella made a delicious carrot cake.   Who says you can’t have cake for breakfast?

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and then, of course, we decided to partake in spring break fun and headed for the shore

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which is just a guise for expanding our seashell collection.  Cristybella scored the find of the day – a hamburger sea bean (lower right)!

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Finally – a gardening tip:  geranium cuttings will take root in water.  Roots originate from the juncture on the stem where leaves are growing.  It’s taken me months and many failed cuttings to discover the elusive secret.

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may every day of your life be beautiful.  And if it doesn’t quite seem so at first, just squint your eyes a little and smile with your heart.