34 things

1. Today is my birthday

2. I’m 34

3. October 5th is a very common birthday {go back 10 months and you get New Year’s. Looks like some folks were doing more than kissing at the stroke of midnight}.

4. I always thought it was the most common birth date in America, but new research shows differently.

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5. My claim to fame is now gone. All you September 16th birthday-girls can now be proud that you have the most common birthday.

6. I am a middle child.

7. I have two sisters. They are friendly, giving, kind, funny and beautiful. And two of my closest friends.

{little sister, big sister, me. On big sister’s wedding day 9 years ago yesterday}.

8. You can’t tell from the photo but we each have a different natural hair color: blonde, brown, red. But the exact same mannerisms.

9. And we all wore the same wedding dress.

9. But our weddings were very different. Country club {fancy}. On the beach {elegant}. Summertime celebration {just plain fun}.

10. Our No. 1 is the oldest of the 9 cousins. For a short window of time this February their ages will be 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, baby. My mom is one happy grandma.

11. Our No. 2 was eight days old before we named him. We just couldn’t come up with the right one.

12. We finally made the decision when the hospital called and told us our time was up.

13. I find it so strange that out of our four kids, none inherited Ryan’s {nearly black} or my {red} hair color.

14. They all have Ryan’s eye color {very amazing blue}.

15. And thankfully not my skin color.

16. My eyes are greenish/goldish/who-knows-what color. When I was a baby, they were crossed.

17. That is one funky-looking baby. My poor parents.

18. I have Strabismus a.k.a. lazy eye.

19. Eye surgeries when I was a baby, six and 18 have taken care of the issue for now.

20. I pretty much only focus with my right eye {I can still see out of my left, I just don’t use the two together unless I really think about it}.

21. I can’t do those annoying Magic Eye 3-D things.

22. And I can’t cross my eyes to make a silly face.

23. Thankfully, none of our kids are showing signs of eye problems.

24. My best friend from high school was Brittany Jones.

25. I was Emily Jones. We are not related.

26. We were in all the same classes, cheerleaders together and have very, very similar handwriting.

27. Both of us made our handwriting into a font.

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30. You can get hers here and mine here.

31. Even though all of my friends are runners, I am just not. It hurts my lungs.

32. The only time I consistently ran was for a short time in college when I had a crush on this cute boy who lived in the dorm on the way to the track. I always hoped I would run into him.

33. That cute boy is now my handsome husband, daddy to my kids, business partner and putter-upper with my shenanigans. Apparently all that running past him long ago did the trick.

34. Lots of randomness to be thankful for this year. Family, kids, friends, creativity, straightened-eyes, health, marriage. Feeling particularly full on this my special day.

Here’s to wishing this year will be the

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