Missed Birthday's

Today will be a short post...not much time due to me being a college student at the age of, oh lets just say 29.

Today would have been my sister, Jamie's 42nd birthday. I have missed the last 4, well technically I haven't missed them, but they weren't celebrated in the normal fashion. You know, with birthday cake, candles, phone calls, PRESENTS! I miss those birthday celebrations.

This morning, as my daughter Tabitha was counting down her birthday, 7 days on her little fingers. She counts them for me every morning. I think its just to remind me that "hey my birthday is coming."  But this got me thinking about my sister, and about when she was a child and counting down her birthday on her "little fingers." It brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it.

But I shouldn't be sad today! Today is a day that a wonderful woman was born, who lived for her children and taught me what true love really looked like. Even though we lost her at a young age, I thank God we got to spend the time with her we did on Earth. As the saying goes, ( I believe this saying was in the movie Steel Magnolias) "I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special. "  My sister was that moment of something special, I'd rather have had that than nothing at all. 

So in celebration, Happy Birthday my big sis Jamie!