67 + 37 = 104! Oh my!

I have been having a good time this past week! We are getting ready for a trip! My birthday and our anniversary are this month. And Tom is taking me on a trip! How different this is from last year! For long time readers you might remember that I was getting ready to tell Tom that I had been blogging for quite a while. I knew he was going to be upset and I was RIGHT!! It was a tense, tough time for me. But my Tom, my wonderful Tom finally listened to me. I might have been sitting sensitive for a day or two but it could not have turned out better in the long run! I do love this man!!!

I have been hinting, asking, begging for a certain birthday gift. Tom always says ‘NO’. He says I don’t need it and he doesn’t want me to have it. I haven’t given up hope. He has been known to surprise me!

Most of you are much younger than I am and I am so grateful that you have accepted me as one of you and let me come out here and play. What a wide circle of diverse friends I have made here. My blogger friends are so dear to me, Mthc and David and PK have also email often lately to keep my spirits up and they really have done so. They laugh at me kindly about my mothering ways but they see that I need to mother a bit. There is something else I found out here, something I never thought I would have. How many people get a big brother when they are in their 60’s? Paul is the closes to me in age. He has been so kind and supportive since the first word I wrote. He never hesitated to side with Tom, NEVER! LOL! But he and Tom are very much alike that I cherish his comments both as what dear Paul thinks and because it is as the closestest to what Tom might say. This family out here is very dear to me!

We will be gone for at least 2 weeks, possible longer but I WILL check in whenever I can. We often stay somewhere where I can at least check my email and sometime sneak and look at a blog or two if Tom is not paying attention! So I will not be disappearing this year! We will probably be leaving Thursday or Friday.

I will be 67 on Saturday. Sixty-seven! How in the world did that happen? Now that age is all well and good, but this birthday spanking is nothing to sneeze at! Not to mention 37 more for our anniversary later in the week!! If nothing else I want to show all you children that love does not diminish with age. We love each other so much more now that we did the day we were married. I know Tom is old fashion and some of you probably think he is too controlling but he is everything I have ever wanted. I did not realize when we married that spanking would be so prevalent I our marriage but by far most of them are loving and caring and exactly what I need. I am the luckiest lady you will ever meet!