“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”Audrey Hepburn
I love birthdays! Having Everyone call me and wish me a great day, the wonderful cards, thoughtful presents and I also love this time of the year. The fall scenery is breath-taking, I love the autumn leaf colors, and the crisp, early mornings. When I was a kid, one year on my birthday we set out on a camping trip. Before we had left, my best friend Lillian gave me my gift to take and open on the way. It was so heavy! For hours I thought about what it could possibly be in this wonderfully wrapped box that weighed so much! I had to wait 24 hours for my official birthday before I could unwrap the present. On the night of my birthday, as I sat down around the campfire with family and friends, all eyes were on me as I began to unwrap the gifts, I saved Lillian’s for last. After I had finished with the others, in increasing excitement I opened the one very large, neatly wrapped box. The first box inside the great big box was filled with rocks, inside the next box was even more rocks, and then another with more rocks! All my relatives were laughing and laughing until finally I reached a small little box filled with some kind of jewelry that I can’t quite recall. Yet, it was a wonderful memory of all the aunts and uncles and cousins wailing with laughter around the campfire! Thanks Lillian! So glad we are still friends and so happy you like the story!! :)……….
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”Audrey Hepburn
A Givenchy Haute Couture white point d’esprit ball gown worn by Audrey Hepburn in the opera scene of “Love in the Afternoon” in 1956
Image: Kerry Taylor Auctions
P.S Diamond Lil Somebody’s thinking of YOU! xoxo
2 thoughts on “I love Birthdays! P.S Diamond Lil Somebody’s thinking of YOU! xoxo”
Judy Dery
A lovely post that had my imagination dancing.
I’m not so fond of birthdays anymore. I have said since I turned 29 that …..I would forever be 29. But when I reached 29, 29 times I gave it up. Now I never commit but I keep telling myself…who you think yur foolin? Anybody with eyesight can tell I’m over sixtyseventysomething.
Seize the day … enjoy!
Elizabeth Metz
(((HUGS)))