My 40th Birthday

My sister threw me a SURPRISE birthday party.

She called me and asked me to come help her process deer meat. I for sure did not want to do that on my birthday, and I told her that I could not because I had a hair cut appointment and something else. But she begged me to help her, and so I went.

Luckily for me, there was no actual deer meat- just my good friends and a delicious gingerbread cake with whipped cream.

Also luckily for me, I needed a shower badly enough that it couldn’t be put off, and I decided that even if I were processing meat that I was going to wear makeup on my birthday. 😅

It was healing to my soul to have so many friends take time out of their day to celebrate me. In my exhausted mother of twins state, I feel pretty isolated most of the time. And my sister did so much work- I’ve always intended to throw a party for her as payback, and I’ve never succeeded in doing it yet (I write 6 years later.)

Notes from friends and cousins:

Sorry I couldn’t be there. How can Rebecca be 40, I’m not a day over 21?—Mom

One of my heroes for sure! Happy birthday Rebecca!
—Kathy G

Happy Birthday, Cousin Rebecca!
From all of us over in these Kentucky hills.

—Ben E

Rebecca, you’re 40?!?! I wish I had known that was coming up last week when I was there. Happy birthday!!! I feel so lucky and blessed to have you as a sister-in-law! Love you tons. See you at Christmas!!!—Linda L

Happy birthday, Rebecca!—Clara D

Happy Birthday! 4️⃣0️⃣ looks so sweet on you ❤️Brenna G

I totally love this! Happy birthday!!—Martha R

Happy Birthday beautiful!! 🎈🎂🎈—Jenny P