New Year

Happy New Year!!!! Happy 2009!!! The beginning of a new year sort of forces us to make resolutions to make us better people. I tire of making the same resoulution to lose weight and get in shape every year only to fail. This year I resolve to better communicate with those I love and hopefully build better relationships with my family. Then too I also hope to take better care of myself and maybe some weight will fall off.
Questions for January 1 through January 3 are related to my admission into this physical world. I was born on February 1 on a Sunday. I was born in the country. We lived in the country all of my childhood. My father was not home at the time. We did not have a telephone so my mother and oldest sister had to walk several miles to a neighbor's home to call for the doctor. My mother sent the rest of the kids to church and Sunday school and then home with aunts and uncles. Then she and my sister waited for the doctor and his midwife. I was born at home. My mother had already given birth to 12 children. My oldest brother had a twin sister who did not survive. This made me number 12 of their eventually 14 children. Our house at the time was an old log cabin. I always thought it would lead me to great destiny. After all Abe Lincoln was born in a log cabin and look what he accomplished. My mother always related the story to me every year on my birthday..."It was the coldest day that winter....." I never tired of hearing how I came into the world. She didn't have an easy time of it but she always made each of us feel that we were special and worth all the effort.
Having a winter birthday, my alternate presents were knee highs and mittens. My favorite birthday cake was an angel food cake with strawberry ice cream. I loved having my birthdays. I couldn't wait to meet certain milestones, 16 years, 18 years, etc. Time could not go by fast enough. Now it seems that time goes by too fast. I am thankful to yet have another birthday to celebrate each year.
Well on to my new years resolution. I need to make some calls. Until next time....