Day #16 - Aging Gracefully

Some things just get better with age:

• A wheel of Gouda - aged cheeses...just cut the mold off - good as new & super delicious!
• Blue Jeans - I go so far as to patch them if need be to avoid getting a new pair that is just not quite the same as the favorite pair of jeans
• Scrapbooks & photo albums - they are more enjoyable to look at the longer we move from the days they were put together
• Leather Chairs - the day we brought home our leather chair from RC Willey 13 years ago, the most expensive single piece of furniture we had ever purchased (then or since) and the cat scratched it within the first 10 minutes, I told Travis the more worn it looks, the better it will be. Totally true!
• Cowboy boots - when you have a great pair of boots, you re-sole them before you buy a new pair.
• Tom Seleck...will he really stay awesome for all time? 
• Vocabulary - with age comes more words...it just happens.
• Patience - really do we have a choice?
• Perennials - the first year they are babies, by year 3 they are magnificent, by year 5 it is time to spread the joy throughout the rest of the yard - they just keep giving.

Another thing that just gets better with age is my sister Melissa. Today is her 40th Birthday and she seems to just get more fit, more gracious, more lively, more accepting, more creative, more ambitious...just better and better.

Congrats M! Happy Birthday! Thank you for being such a great example of how to make the best of living!

I Am Grateful,
HB

Diva Quote: "The years teach much, which the days never knew."  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson