49 Lizzi Years

Today I celebrated my 49th year of life. My where has the time gone? I think the funniest call I received was from my Sis Mary. She makes it a point to always sing me Happy Birthday, and I have been fortunate enough to catch it on my message machine (twice) priceless! At the end of the song she always says Happy Birthday My Baby Sister Lizzi..cause your the baby, Happy Birthday To You! Cute right! This year I told her "wow that's an old baby" she said well your still my baby. My Sisters are great, I can't say that we talk everyday, or see each other very often. But, we are there for one another if there is ever a need. And we make it a point to celebrate each sisters b-day with a girls day out.

My day started out nice and smooth with a cup of coffee. I was so excited I began responding to all my birthday well wishes, which took most of the morning. Then my daughter Melissa came and picked me up to go shopping. We picked up Felice at school and were on our way. Three girls with no work, no schedules, no pickups or drop offs, sweet right! Awhh I wish my Senny could be here. We went to Santana Row because a few of my favorite stores are there. When you find a store that suits your taste and style and your always able to find something you love, those are the ones you hit first. So Anthropologie it is! Oh how I love their clothing all the colors, textures, and vibe. I've got to say this is the most well rounded store. I wouldn't mind living in there lol! Anyways the girls picked out two dresses, I tried them on, and guess what, they both fit perfectly. I could only have one, so we had to pick the one we loved the most. I figured well, one of them could carry me right through fall and winter, the other was more of a summer dress, so the practical side of me chose the one I would get the most use out of.

That was easy, we made our way over to Pizza Antica where we had lunch. Caesar Salad Fingers, Pizza, and a Diet Coke...hmmm my kind of meal. Their pizza is a more rustic style, not really a circle at all, kind of an oval, misshapen thing, with delicious toppings, not too thick, and an incredibly chunky fresh tomatoey sauce. We discussed shoes and accessories, I definitely had a pair of shoes I knew would match. I usually borrow the girls long necklaces with baubles, so they decided I needed some of my own. We finished up our delicious lunch and drove across the way to the mall.

We went to the Urban Decay counter (which is our new favorite makeup) I hopped on the stool as the girls explained to the gal, the dress is green and black, with a lil' bit of gold, maybe a nice smokey eye, with bronzy glow. She got it and set right to work transforming my plain ordinary look to an amazing J.Lo glo kind of look. Something I could never do on my own, I loved it! Onto accessories, you girls know that Forever 21 is the best place for bling. So the girls sat me down with my iPad and ran off to pick out some items. I felt like I had my own personal shoppers all day, I could get used to this. They brought some items for me to yes, no, made our purchases and we were off. Our day just flew by, I couldn't believe we were done.

Sam had told me he wanted to take me out to dinner (just the two of us) and on Friday night we would have a nice family dinner with the kids. Arriving home I quickly threw on my dress, Melissa gave me a quick updo (ladies what would we do without Bobby Pins) I was ready. We went to Mezcals and had some appetizers and drinks, then for dinner we were walking over to Original Joe's, when Sam said "you know let's try something different and go to the restaurant around the corner" Al Fornaio? We hadn't been there in years, well it was fine by me, I love pasta! And time with my Hubby is great no matter where we are. So we walked along, and as we were passing the glass windows, who do I see waving..Paul, Jimmy, John, Melissa, Nandy, Felice, Bobby, Dusty, Yesenia, Sammy, and Lil' Rocky, what a great surprise! I was so overwhelmed it brought tears of joy to my eyes. I was totally caught off guard. But that's how my kids are, they make everything special for one another, and today it was ME. We had a wonderful dinner, Dusty went into their kitchen and made his own personal pizza, which he was very proud of. Wow, there is absolutely no other place I would rather be than there with my family.

I am incredibly blessed, I don't know why God chose to be so merciful to me and give me such wonderful children. But He did, in spite of my weaknesses, and shortcomings. I am in no way the perfect Mother, but am truly thankful that my kids love, and honor me the way they do. So turning 49 is more wonderful than 48, and so on...

I will be back in the Studio this week, hopefully we will complete two songs. And I hope, I hope (cross my fingers) the mastered songs will come back. See you on Monday

<3 49 is the new 29, Lizzi


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