Today is my 50th Birthday.
I am just as adorable now as I was then, in my humble opinion. My wide, dimpled smile continues to get me both in and out of trouble and my sparkling brown eyes contain joy and the ever present hint of mischief.
I could hear at birth and through my early years until everything began to fade when I was around 3 ½ years old. I got my first hearing aid when I was 4 years old, and as of this birthday, I also celebrate the milestone of having worn hearing aids for 46 years.
I have been blessed beyond measure with an incredible husband, a large family and more friends that I can count, some of whom I hold dear as honorary family members. I do not have children, but I believe that I was not meant to have them so I could be an “Aunty” to everyone’s children – which I consider to be the highest honor of my life.
I enter my 50th year with excitement, nostalgia and a fair amount of curiosity which has always provided me with a few entertaining stories in the situations in which I have found myself, that are often unbelievable. I’ve been attacked by an alligator in a canoe, stormed the field at Alumni Stadium on crutches after a big BC football victory, and woke up in a tent in a field somewhere in Canada only to find out that Princess Di has passed away.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I am off to continue living a great story…
Happy Birthday to me, and love to all of you!
xo Julie
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