Hi everyone! Hope you are all doing well wherever you find yourself reading. Since tomorrow marks my date of birth into this world, I thought to share some memorable or as the title suggests “ultimate” birthday moments with you all today. I bet you can think of certain ones that stand out or perhaps win a match in your life, but I have a few that came to me as being pretty special so let’s “lock up” for some fun! 
Most can be considered milestones, but I guess people put more work into some of those. My 1️⃣0️⃣th was a surprise and maybe because of double digits, not sure. Every year, my grandparents visited for all our special days but this time for me was different. They’d mail the card with money but when arriving, they asked me to come outside to the car. Huh? Why? It so happened my cousin who is the same age as me was hiding down low in the backseat! I was so happy she came. We had a lot of fun and I was very touched how my aunt worked with my grandparents to bring her. 🥹
Let’s skip several years ahead now to my 1️⃣6️⃣th . Yes, that’s called “sweet 16” for most girls and my friends gave me wishes but it was celebratory in another way with family. My mom started this tradition of when our grandparents came for that birthday, we each got to pick a restaurant to have dinner. Mind you~~~this doesn’t sound like a huge deal nowadays but back then, it truly was. We rarely ate out as a family or even got fast food. Those were luxuries and not something we did often, if ever. I can still remember the place I chose. It’s called something else now but what a treat to look forward to and then have culminate in a great time.
This next one is yet another milestone but it’s too sweet to forget. It was my 2️⃣1️⃣st . Yes, most people have that first alcoholic drink. I can’t believe my son is approaching that age soon… 😳 I did have that drink, but it’s not what you may think. At a bar with my besties? Nope. I actually mentioned this birthday once a few years back with coworkers throwing me a lunch at work but this time, it was dinner. Dinner with my Dad. I can’t recall specifically if my Mom was at a weekend event with my college age sister then or if Dad just took me out. Either way, he asked me and I said yes. We ate at this Mexican place (no longer there) and I got to wear the sombrero! I always wanted to do that as the staff sang “Feliz Cumpleanos” to me! Dad continued the surprise of gifting me this beautiful sapphire (my birthstone) and diamond ring. 💍 No, it’s not real of course~~~ha ha but so pretty and unexpected. I saved the photo of me with mouth open, wearing the sombrero while opening the ring box. I think I had a margarita too. 🍹A great birthday with my Dad I’ll always remember. Fried ice cream for dessert, 😋 !
Now, we’ll fast forward many years later with husband and kids. My 4️⃣0️⃣th brought a great early summer trip to San Diego, CA in 2012. We went to SeaWorld and then saw family who lived out there in the area. Such a cool experience to share that ocean trip to the Pacific~~~ 🌊 my first time and also to give my kids Shamu who I enjoyed as a kid. SeaWorld here in Ohio closed long before my kids and I loved it all when I was young. The best part was getting to swim with a dolphin, my lifelong dream. 🐬I’ve also mentioned this before but it was so overwhelming to hear of my husband’s plans for my big 4-0. I cried when we left. I got to see the Hollywood sign, the Chinese theater, and all the stars I wanted on the “Walk of Fame.” One of my best b-day ever!
Here comes number 5 as initially I thought this was gonna just be a 3 count, ha! I apologized to Warrior profusely for almost excluding this one but I’m sure he’d just uproariously laugh at my indiscretion and then maybe relay a joke 🤭or two. How could I possibly exclude 2016? That was 4️⃣ years after my 40th for those doing the math. 😜That also brought the batteries 🔋 🔋story which has been shared here many times as it is in my book. I even made a YouTube video on it back then. The song, ” The Flame” by Cheap Trick will always be special to me and finding the word warriors on those batteries was so unreal. When I told a good friend~ his comment was : “they will run forever!” He meant the batteries naturally. I wonder if he remembers that? I sure do and always will… 🥰Oh, that year with all its ultimate goodies, I could barely keep up. “The Mysterious Batteries” post is STILL viewed as one of my top five of all in these almost 8️⃣ years so many thanks goes out to you readers.
That ends my ultimate birthday celebrations but a quick mention of last year. I had to do 6️⃣, that’s my number ya know! No, not a milestone but I received a wonderful awesome gift in the mail which totally made me very emotional. I have found many Bluejay feathers around my b-day and did recently but this gift filled me with such gratitude, I couldn’t forget to tag it in. A million thanks goes out to my wonderful friend. 🩷🤗Thank you also to Warrior for his countless inspiration in so many numerous ways, I could never list them all. Expect the unexpected and rejoice in the little things as they are worth it too.
I do wish you all many memorable birthdays as we recall the past, but look forward to the future. Live in the present as *** THAT*** is your present or gift always. 🎁 Celebrate your life the way you want and hopefully others will too. I treasure them all, and also cannot believe I am nearing Warrior’s last number he got here before “running” back to parts unknown… 😔May all your birthdays be ultimate celebrations too!
P.S. I wore that sapphire ring last week… It made me think of “Sweet Sapphire!” You gotta say it like Dusty Rhodes did! WWF fans will know this!!! 💙💎
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