Today is my Birthday!…
How come we love our Birthday… the day… the month…???
I like the Birthstone of “Garnet”… a very deep red…
Rough Cut 
Sample Ring with Garnet…
After Christmas you can get a little blue due to activities being over… so gives me something to look forward to…
My cousin and I were born on the same day … same year… same hospital…
which is pretty great!!…
but, when January 15, 1973 came… a little boy came to share that day too…
my youngest son, Brian…
So… today we meet for lunch…
along with other January Birthday people in our little family…
My oldest Granddaughter 
… my daughter-in-law’s Mother…
I have many nieces and nephews and my Mother who also shared this month…
Some of my favorite Birthday gifts I remember were books I received from a sister-in-law…
Bobbsey Twins… I was probably 8 or 9… Because I was 10 when they married…
also Little Women and Robinson Crusoe…
My love of books began in my younger years along with art… Coloring… Drawing… Painting…
a few paintings…
I usually give away what I paint…
I just bought myself a new Book Light…
I love to read while Bobby has his chemo… but, he likes the room dimmer when sleeping…
and my eyes are not as good to read like that…
I also like to read in bed at night…
so, this little light helps me to enjoy my books…
The books were just one thing I remember… as a favorite Birthday gift… but, I have many!
MKG- Memories-Keepsakes-Gifts 
Happy Birthday to you! Books were always my favourite too and I recognise some of these! All the best to you and Bobby.:)
thank you Sally!
Happy Birthday, Marilyn. Happy Birthday to Brian, also!
I didn’t forget and never will.
Dorothy
thank you my dear friend…
Happy Birthday!
thank you Freeda…
I spy a Jan Karon book among your treasures. I love her Mitford series. And another “happy birthday.”
I just found this one at VA…always have books for people to take…I will have to read others in the series….
Happy Birthday Marilyn!! Hope you got to enjoy it! :)
My nana got me a light like that a couple of years ago. It’s now in my closet but I have a different one but it doesn’t give off a lot of light at one time so I might need to go thru my shelf in the back of the closet. Wish me luck on getting that done!
thank you so much…a great new year to you too!
did you find your light?
Nope! It won’t be for a while my mom will want to go thru my closet… probably April. Lol
Happy Birthday Marilyn. I loved the Bobbsey Twins too…also Little Women, I read that beautiful story still and remember my grandmother who introduced it to me as a child. God bless you in 2017.
thank you so much…a great new year to you too!