Lee Tree!
Please, please, PLEASE accept my apology for not posting on your birthday! To the rest of you, her birthday was November 26th. It's funny, I can preach about how we need to calm down and mellow out and slow down, but I am just as vulnerable to getting caught up as everyone else is. My thought is that if I can recognize my stress level and reign it back in, then I'm accomplishing something. It's not about failing - it's about getting back on track when you do.
For years, for each of us, my mom would make our favorite food for our birthday dinner. Mine was lasagna, Kami loved liver and onions and Kate's favorite was teriyaki chicken. To this day, I have no idea what Lee's favorite food is. Most of the time it landed on Thanksgiving so her special birthday dinner, while being a much larger affair than the rest of ours, was always turkey. And now that we've all moved out, I usually just get her birthday gift to her on Thanksgiving as well since that's when we all get together. Sadly, this year I forgot to bring it to her - and it would have been 2 days late by then. If I can get it together in the next couple weeks she MIGHT have it before Christmas. No guarantees though. And it will be wrapped in Christmas paper.
Lee, you are the ultimate eccentric. This is not a negative connotation. You have always been the most unconventional person I know. You do what you want, what you feel is right, and you are the most caring, selfless person I know. Your work with the pups at the shelter is, I can bet, a Godsend to those people and animals. Your creativity as an artist is inspiring and I wish you the best with everything. You won't need my well wishes, though, because I know that you will be successful with life in a way that many others can't even fathom. You always have been. It hasn't been without its downfalls, of course. You've been to hell and back in your life (I know, I had my own trip to that particular state of hell as well) and you returned home with an understanding and awareness that only comes from such a traumatic trip.
I hope you had a wonderful birthday, Lee!
I love you!
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