For Me!

There are many reasons why i am starting this blog. In addition to the reasons previously posted, namely for Mia, Tres, and Gage, I am doing this for me!! In fact, it is, in part, a gift i am giving to myself in celebration of turning 40 this year (you read that right, 40! the big 4! 0!; That's 10*4=40! Crazy! I remember when my mother turned 40! It seems like only yesterday! Anyway, i digress... Where was I?)

Since my birthday in June, we have been celebrating my 40th birthday by doing something special each month. It is/has been/will be/sort of like a year long celebration of turning 40.  To kick off the celebration, in June we went on vacation during the week of my birthday and on my actual birthday, Gage and I went out and had an amazing dinner (at Brewster Fish House) and he surprised me with "an afternoon of beauty" at a local Spa. Then in July, we went out with my twin sister and her husband and had another amazing dinner (at City Zen) to celebrate our birthday since she and I were apart on the big day.  Ditto in August: Really amazing dinner (at 2941) with my in-laws (we were also celebrating his birthday and their anniversary too).  To shake things up a bit (i.e. no celebrating over food), last month while traveling on business in Brazil, i bought some Brazilian art (wooden sculptures/objects) in celebration of...you guessed it...my 40th birthday!  And as you now know, this month, October, I've decided to give myself another gift, this blog.

The year isn't over yet, but i think that this gift (the blog) potentially could be the best gift i get this year -- for at least a few reasons. First, it is a gift that has the potential to keep on giving well after i am 40. Second, it is a gift i can share with you (or anyone else i want to). Third, it is free! And some of the best things in life are free! Seriously though, it is a rare and precious gift that will recount and reflect,  my past, present, and future hopes, dreams, experiences, and thoughts regarding me, my family, friends, and events of the day. A priceless gift indeed!

I must confess that the idea of giving the blog to myself as a "gift" was not an entirely original idea. In fact, a friend of mine inspired me to do so.  She gave herself "the gift" of a blog when she turned 37.  As part of this gift to herself, she vowed to write on her blog everyday for at least one year and has invited her friends, of which i am blessed to be one of them, to join her on this journey and I am on that journey with her.  So i would like to thank her again for the inspiration. I hope the experience for me will be as rewarding as it has already been for her. So far, so good!