today is my birthday.
it's going to be great because i keep saying "it's going to be great" to myself over and over.
to convince myself.
remember my list i made last october?
i did GET photoshop….i just didn't learn how to use it yet.
i did make a painting but it wasn't the one i was dreaming of in my head so i don't want to count it.
i did NOT sleep till noon….once i slept till 10:30 and stayed in bed till 11:00.
i did NOT lose ten pounds. i lost 5 though…that is better than none.
i did NOT learn how to cook pork but crystal b. is helping me on that.
i did NOT go dancing. BOO. i should have done this…i love dancing.
i did NOT even once think about painting the trim in the craft room.
i did NOT send my friends b-day cards. good intentions…..
i did NOT do the weekly meal plans. that was never going to happen…my brain does not work that way.
i did NOT make peppernuts. THIS is the christmas. it has to be.
i DID start to sew a quilt.
i did not paint the laundry room….because we are going to gut it eventually….so yay.
i did NOT take a trip with my sister…but we will travel together in the end of october…so we can count that.
i did NOT go camping in a tent outside. that is a funny one.
i did NOT host a craft weekend at my house….i still want to….something to work on.
i did NOT do a freezer meal swap. that is ridiculous. i have to do that again soon!!
and even after reading all that i do not feel i have failed.
i DID got to africa.
i DID start running.
i DID give up sugar for 3 months.
i DID spend everyday with my kids all summer.
i DID go down a slip n' slide.
those things count for at least three things each….right?
i don't think i will make another list.
because my everyday to do list is already so long.
but some times i surprise myself.
today….i am going to have a carmel apple martini WITH MY LUNCH because i want to and i can.
i am thirty-five.
the guy didn't card me at walmart for my spray paint OR my beer.
it's official.
i am all groweds up.
Betsy - You go Girl – 35 is a great time to be alive and well! I am hitting my 50 mark in January….Oh to be 35 again and to know what I know NOW!!! Much joy to you on your special day!
Tara - i love this post.
yay for celebrating the things you DID DO on your list!
you are in deed ALL GROWED UP! 🙂
Lisa Cash - Happy Birthday! Hope it’s a great one!
Trish - Happy Birthday!
You inspire so many and do so with much love and grace.
Happy second half to 70 to you!
Tonya @ More Than Enough - Happy birthday, Meg! I turned 36 on the 18th and celebrated by 12th anniv. the next day. It IS going to be a good year!
Beth - Happy Birthday! Hope it’s a great year! On the meal planning — it is totally not me either. I mean *really* *not* *me*. I’m about as organized as. . . I don’t know, the most unorganized thing you can think of. But, I started doing it a number of years ago and it has made my life SO MUCH EASIER. Maybe you’re just a natural at stocking up on what you need to make meals, but I was always out of something I needed and it was either run to the store AGAIN or eat junk. My newest goal is to include my family in the planning and making, er I mean letting, them cook part of the time. Oh, and camping. In a tent. It’s awesome. I think you might like it 🙂
Liza - Aloha – Many blessings on your day and your ‘new year’. Hau’oli La Hanau ~ happy birthday in Hawaiian ~
Krista - Happy Happy Birthday~ I would say you accomplished a LOT! Awesome…I love looking back at those lists and seeing what can get done over the span of a year. Hope you had a happy day and a yummy martini 🙂
Tanya H - THAT is when I started reading your blog! Someone said something about your list and I came to see. You rock. Happy Birthday and thanks for making the world a little brighter and more fun! So far, 30 is my fave. Don’t see why 35 shouldn’t be too!
Tricia - Happy, happy Birthday, Meg!!!!
Heather - Happy All Growed Up Birthday!!!
Michele - Happy Birthday!
Suzanne - Happy Birthday my virtual friend 🙂
Donna - Happy Birthday!! You are a fabulous 35!!
Jules - Happy birthday Megan! Hope you have a fabby day! I’m a September baby too! Hope 35 is a fantastic year for you and your family! Xx
Daniela - Happy Birthday!
Shelly Primm - happy birthday! i hope you had a fantastic day. i love reading your blog. thank you for sharing your life with so many strangers! 😉
Margo - Happy Birthday!! Welcome to 35 – hope you had a great day!!
Amnah - Happy birthday Meg!!
Elizabeth@BlueClearSky - Happy ‘half way to 70’! I guess that would make me halfway to 90! Now that is painful ;(
Maureen - Megan-
“Don’t make me sing…” hAPPy Birthday to you!!! I am forever in your debt for pointing me to that SNL clip. It is my new favorite and I say it to my family all the time. We just had a family wedding of a niece and I said, “Isn’t this a wonderful party!” in her voice and my 14 year old son cracked up. Anyway since you shared, I will share with you. Download from Itunes, Al Anderson’s song “Trip Around the Sun.” as a birthday treat.A friend put it on a mixed tape years ago for me and now we play it for everyone’s birthday in our family. My daughter just turned 17 on the 27th and I played it from my Ipod while I drove her to school. She said, “Here we go” when I started it but they really get a kick out of it. Happy Birthday, I would kill to be 35 again. Good year.
Maureen
christine - hope you had a memorable day!
happy birthday!
Jacqui - Happy birthday Meg!
Susan - Happy Birthday!
Alma - feliz trienta cinco!You truly are an awseome lady!
Julie - Happy, happy, happy birthday! May your year be blessed!
~Julie
Stephanie - I faithfully read your blog but have never made a comment. Happy birthday! Today is my daughter’s 6th birthday too… I am attempting to make your rainbow cake for her party! Wish me luck!
Hope your day was wonderful 🙂
Leigh - Happy birthday, Meg! I still think your list is great even if you didn’t get to cross everything off. I think your trip to Africa should count for 20. When I first came to your blog, you inspired me to create my own list (31 Things) and it has been fun working on it! Thank you for the inspiration.
peta - happy birthday!
may you continue to be blessed x
Kari - HaPpY BiRtHdAy! I just turned 38 last week. Like my wise friend said, 40 is the new 20 but 38 is just 38. Ha!
Logan - Happy 35th birthday, Megan! Hope you are having a wonderful day. By the way, I am very impressed with all that you did do! Way to go!
PS. Love my Wet n Wild lip glosses. Thanks for the “heads up” on that one!
Nikki in Austin - happy birthday, friend! if you ever visit austin, i’ll take you dancing (that’s one of my favorite, albeit infrequent, things to do too). here’s to hangin’ on to 34 as long as i can. well, six more months anyway. bathe in the blessings of being wooed and extravagantly loved by our awesome Father!
Dave - Looking forward to your movie about your social media web site.
Happy Birthday. You rock!
Chicago Dave
Courtney Walsh - aw, happy birthday, friend! 🙂
hope you have a color-filled day!!
Jennifer De Los Santos - Happy Birthday! We got Kate’s pictures today!!! Haven’t looked on the CD yet, but the printed ones are great. Of course, I wish I looked better/thinner, but it is what it is. Thank you for making me be in the pictures. THANK YOU!
Anessa - Happy Birthday! I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy reading your blog everyday. Love the stories, photos, kind of wish I could be part of your family. Oh and I went to a flea market this past weekend and started my own Santa mug collection inspired by YOU! Thanks so much for such a wonderful blog. Puts a smile on my face 🙂 Again HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Brenna - Happy Birthday to beautiful you!! Yesterday was my birthday and I turned 35!!! I think 35 is the new awesome!!
Tracy Sharlette - Happy Birthday Meg!! I hope you had a beautiful day and hope for the best year ever for you!! How was that martini?
Jennifer - Hope your day is special, Meg!
Heather - Happy Birthday! A crafting weekend sounds so fun. I hope you get to do that one this year. 🙂
Heidi Jo the Artist - Happy Birthday Megan! I hope you have a super awesome birthday! 🙂
Love your lists, maybe because they are so bright, colorful, and happy! I need to make mine more like that…I did eventually make mine: http://swirlsofcreativity.blogspot.com/2010/01/30-things-to-do-before-i-turn-31.html However, I turned 31 in April, so I’m working on getting more done on my list for age 32, still have a ways to go, but I feel I get more accomplished when it is written down.
Simies - Happy Birthday! I love your blog!
Staci - I hope you have a lovely lovely day!!!!! And wow! A caramel apple martini?!!! I have GOT to remember that one 😉 Sounds super delish !
Kasey - Thanks for taking the time to share part of your life with us. Your blog is one of my very favorites! Happy birthday!
Beth @ Dirty Laundry - Mmm, yum, the caramel apple martini sounds like a great way to celebrate! Your list was daunting, and you did so much! Way to celebrate the big AND little things in life. Happy Birthday!
cassi - Happy Birthday! What a great way to plan out things you want to do. Congrats on achieve some of them
sarah - you are so treasured by this community of women…thank you for sharing your struggles and fears and mistakes as well as your creativity and wittiness and triumphs. you manage be to be authentic on the internet–no small feat.
i hope in this next year you know God more than you ever have before.
xoxo
Lauren - Happy BIrthday, Meg! I hope its a fabulous year!!!
Julie - Happy birthday Meg!! How did I not remember you share a birthday with my (now) 6 year old?! I think your martini sounds better than the Hi-C orange drink my son ordered at McDonalds for his birthday lunch. So I just turned 34 not too long ago and when I read today’s post I thought, “Oh, I should make a 35 Things to do Before I’m 35.” Then I kept on reading and now I’m not so sure I want to. There’s enough pressure on me already! Mom to 4 kids, wife to 1 big kid (ha!), and teacher to 24 kidlings. But then making a list may force me to do some things for myself. I don;t really do all that much for ME. I’ll need to think about this.
Anyway, I know I already said it, but I’ll say it again. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Enjoy YOUR day! 🙂
Allison Y. - Happy Happy Birthday!! Thanks for brightening my day(s) with you happy blog!
Jen - Happy Birthday, Meg!
Daisy Cottage - HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU ARE ADORABLE IN EVERY WAY AND SUCH A BLESSING TO US ALL!!!
HERE’S TO THE REST OF YOUR LIFE…. MAY IT BE ALL YOU DREAM IT TO BE!
xo,
Kim
Kate @ Songs Kate Sang - Meg, Happy Birthday!!! You have done so many amazing things! What a great year for you!!
Christina - I remember last year reading that you were turning 34 and that you had this list for before you were 35, and being surprised because I had thought you were older than I am…not because you look older, but because you seemed so much more grown up. 🙂 I just turned 36, and I still feel like I’m 17. Such a child!
Anyway, I hope that your day is wonderful and full of special and fun surprises!!
sarajane - happy birthday! Hope your day is wonderful and relaxing 🙂
gingerbread girl - So did you have a martini??
Lucylu ~ - Happy Birthday! YOU rock!
~~~~~LuLu~~~~~~~
Susan - Happy Birthday from Las Vegas!
tracy - Happy birthday to you,
happy birthday to you,
happy birthday, dear Meg,
happy birthday to you!
it’s just not official unless you have the song!!!
best wishes for a great day and blessed year.
Tracy
Jessica @ One Shiny Star - Happy birthday!
I didn’t know they carded for spray paint?! I’m only 22, and I’ve never been carded for it… I’m not sure what that means!? lol.
pam - Oh, Happy, Happy Birthday, dear Meg. Wish I could hug you today.
I love who you are inside and out and hope today is as special as you are. How could anyone NOT love your sensitive spirit, your compassionate heart, your tears that flow straight from Jesus in your heart, your humorous whit and your beloved artistic gift. YOU are unique and lovely.
Maybe we should have a girls night in a tent? for real. Oh how the laughs would flow in the dark.
Much love, friend. Happy Day.
Sharri - Happy Birthday Megan!
Alisha Gibb - Happy Birthday! Enjoy that martini. Who needs an excuse on their birthday?!
Faith Hope & Cherrytea - HaPpieSt BiRtHdaY!
for today & blessings on your new year :))
Faith Hope & Cherrytea - HaPpieSt BiRtHdaY!
for today & blessings on your new year :))
Valerie - Happy Birthday to someone I don’t know, but feel like I do! Enjoy that martini 🙂
Tina - Happy birthday! You are amazing!
Elise - Happy Birthday!! You’re the greatest and I hope your day is incredible because you absolutely deserve it!
Denise - I hope you have a wonderful day!
Pamela M - Happy Birthday to you. I am a fan of your blog and this is the first time I have written. I am no longer a lurker from this point. tee hee!
In 10 years from now, you will look back and say you were just a baby. Try it, think back 10 years when we thought 25 was old-ish. It works, right?
Have a great birthday. I have to wonder if those precious kids of yours have made “hand made” cards for you!
Jennifer O'Steen - Happy birthday Meg! I hope you have a fabulous day!!
tara pollard pakosta - Happy Happy Birthday, Beautiful, Inspiring, Creative, GEnerous, Loving & KIND Meg! You have done more than you know! Everyday, I come here and am ispired to be a better person, mom, siser, friend etc. You radiate joy, real-ness, love more than anyone I know! Have a fabulous day! I am off to paint a beautiful sheet for my LISTS! I turn 40 next week!!!
hugs!
tara
ann - HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MEG! I hope your day is super and special. I think your blog is awesome as it reflects how awesome YOU are. Best wishes! Hugs, Ann
OnlineSurveyJobs - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! You went to Africa really or you’re just saying that?
Heather - happy birthday meg! i turned 35 this year too and even though it’s not much different then 34 i feel all growed up, too. 🙂
i hope you enjoy your day. you deserve it!!
mandy friend - Happy Birthday Meg!!! I turn 30 in Dec, and you had inspired me to make a list too….crap I need to look at that! I love reading your blog:)
Sara - Happy Birthday Meg!!
Meredith Salmon - Happy Birthday!!! Enjoy that martini.
Kristy - Happy Birthday Meg! You are my favorite blogger! And regarding the poundage….don’t worry about the number…you ARE running and taking care of yourself. You ARE healthy and beautiful! And you will look back a couple yrs. from now at pictures of when you were 35 and think, “what was I fussing about?….I looked pretty damn good!”. Cheers to you hotness!
AmyB - Happy Birthday!!!
Kristen - Happy Birthday!!!!! You must be special, because it is my birthday too!!!! I love reading you every day….keep up the good work! I am thinking of making a list too……30 things to do by 30. I am 28 today. You are soooo inspiring! (oh, and i also would love to have 5 sweet kids like you too….I have 2 amazing ones of my own) Have a wonderful day!
transparent mama - Happy Birthday. That is a hilarious smorgasbord of a list.
Diana Thompson - Have a wonderful, happy birthday!! I love your blog and your colorful life!!
mel - Happy Birthday Meg!!! Hope you have a wonderful day…enjoy your apple martini, you deserve it 🙂
merlin - Happy Birthday to you.
Thank you for all the sunshine and comfort you bring into my life through your blogging.
Enjoy your celebration.
Joni - HaPpY bIrThDaY, mEg! Hope it’s a BEEYOOTIFUL day for you and your family!
XOXO
Joni
Kacey - Happy birthday! You have accomplished so much – be proud of yourself! 🙂
Molly Pearce - Happy birthday Meg! Hope you have a fabulous year!
~Molly P
Beth Twist - Joining in with all of the other well-wishers… Happy Birthday!
I am rapidly nearing the end of my 35th year, and still have one thing to cross off my list (I gave myself a full year, and not nearly as many to-dos!)… get a tattoo. I figure I can handle natural childbirth, so a little needle action shouldn’t even come close to comparing with the pain I have experienced, right?
I have decided that for my 36th year I want to gain enough blog readers so that my birthday wishes can equal a quarter of yours. 🙂
May God richly bless this new year for you… I know that He will continue to do great things in your life.
stacie - Happy Birthday!! I hope you’re enjoying that martin right now! You are really a neat girl, young thirty five year old. I can’t believe I’m the same age as you … I love reading your blog and seeing all that you do. Here’s what I get from it: you are talented in many ways. you are amazing. you are creative (duh!). you love God. you know what’s most important (faith, family, friends, fotography :)). I’m glad I found you. If you are ever in Columbus, OH call me … I’d love to have you here for a sleepover! For reals. Oh, happy day, Megan!!
elz - Happy Birthday- 35 is going to be great! You can also cross off- Make others’ lives better by writing and posting b/c I love your colorful posts and they always cheer me up/make me think.
carrie - Happy Birthday!! Enjoy that martini!! You deserve it! Have a great day!
linda@limein the coconut - Happy Happy day. But dayum….I’ll be half way to 100 on saturday. Never thought of it that way…..geeeez!
shelly@familyblt - Happy Happy Day of your birth! God danced the day you were born!
Hope your martini is delish!
mel - next month will be my 35th too. kind of freaks me out. i think you’re right though. we’re “all growed up” now. hope you have a wonderful birthday meg! enjoy that martini! 🙂
kristin - happy birthday!!
Janine - Happy Birthday!! Thanks for your awesome blog! September 30th babies rock! I turn 32 today, and I just can’t make one of those lists because I know I would feel bad for not crossing everything off of it. Have a great day and a great year!
RLG - Happy Birthday, Meg!
Gosh, you’re so young. Too young to give up sugar! LOL
Hope you’re having a super fantastic day. Can we see a picture of you with that drink??? xoxo
melissa - Happy Birthday Girl! Enjoy it and live it up…make it a good one!
crystal beutler - Happy Birthday Friend! I’m sending you a birthday present. What’s your address again!
I loved your birthday post by the way. I’m so jealous that you got to go to Africa. How cool is that!
april - Happy Birthday!!! Have 2 martinis!!!! You deserve it!!!!
Rach - Happy Birthday!!! You will love 35. 🙂
Susan - Bonne Anniversaire!
I love your list. Don’t make a new one, just keep knocking things off your old one and change the name to “Things I want to accomplish in the next 10 years”. That’s got to be doable yea?
The Lady of the House - Awesome! I was thinking the same thing about the slipnslide thing – You rock girl! Happy Birthday and Enjoy that cocktail with your lunch, doll. You DESERVE it!!!!
Lisa - Have a great birthday!!!!
carissa... brown eyed fox - hAppY biRthDaY to you…
hAppY biRthDaY to you…
hAppY biRthDaY dear MEGGGGGGGGG…
hAppY biRthDaY to YOUUUUUUUUU!
… and many morrrrrre!
just so you know… i sang that outloud too! :O)
big ‘ol hugs & buckets of wishes to YOU! ♥
Jamie - Happy 35th! Enjoy your day!
Denise - Happy Birthday! I hope your day is very blessed.
Art Cant Hurt - sounds like a plan! enjoy yourself!
Robin H Allen - Happy Birthday….
35 is still VERY young…I just turned 50 and wish I had made a list at 35 so that very nearly all of it would be crossed off by now…You have MUCH to be thankful for..you are so clearly multitalented and God smiles on you frequently…and in turn you share the blessings with us your faithful followers…
Color your days and don’t get too worried about staying in the lines…
check out my daughters blog…sohappytogetherforever.blogspot.com she and you share alot of common things…
Have a great day!!
se7en - Oh Happy Birthday!!! You did SO VERY MUCH MORE than your list!!! Hope your next 35 years are just as fun!!!! September is clearly the month to have a birthday!!! Lots of love!!!
Mary Ferrara - Happy Birthday Meg! I just love your list, and this blog is one of my faves. You rock Meg! Hope you have an amazing day!
Dana@Bungalow'56 - Ah… to be so young. Enjoy it. Really, really enjoy it. That is all I have to say.
Dana
Suzette - I’ve got you beat by 10 years (and it stinks!). I was 35 when I gave birth to my one and only child so you’ve already outdone me by four of God’s gifts!!! Have a splendid, joyous day! And thanks for making my day every time you post!
Allison - Happy Birthday funny girlie! Love ya!
Dineen - Happy Birthday Meg! Thanks for making me smile every day!
Sugar Mama - You Go you 35 year young Girl!
Enjoy that martini! (I miss being carded)
Amanda - Happy Birthday – love your new header!!
Cindy Trudo - Happy Birthday! Hope it’s happy. You have such a lovely life on this little blog. Your happiness and candidness is so inspiring. I know you will be blessed by sharing with others what you have been given. 🙂
Cindy
Lisa - Happy birthday, Meg! 35 was a wonderful year for me as I had a new baby boy to love. Now he is 6 and all growed up like you. 🙂 Enjoy your day!
Katie - Happy Birthday! My birthday was this past Saturday, and I turned 36, so we’re about a year apart!
Thanks for the song you posted a few days ago. I listened to it over and over and over again especially through a rough Monday. Here’s another song that has really been a blessing to me lately: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH4rC4oPfoU Maybe you’ll like it too.
jennifer - Happy Birthday! Enjoy your day!!!!
Sandy - Happy Birthday, Meg! You deserve to be treated like a queen today. I do remember your list from last year and I started one for myself….45 things to do before I’m 45 (February 2011)….I’m still having trouble coming up with 45 things so you are WAY ahead of me!! I should get back to the list though, I can probably think of some new things since it’s been set aside for awhile.
Enjoy being 1/2 way to 70!…better than 1/2 way to 90! yikes
Auntie Susan - Happy Birthday, Meg!
Missy - Happy Birthday! My birthday is tomorrow!(34- maybe I should make a 35 before 35 list??!?!?) Last year I cried for most of my birthday for no other reason than I always have expectations that my birthday is going to be super fabulous… and it wasn’t. It was pretty normal- always is, and yet for some reason I am always surprised and let down by this fact. Weird, I know. Well, I hope we both have a fabulous birthday this year! 🙂
I love spray paint too- just spray painted a spooky Halloween wreath for my front door. I posted it yesterday on my blog- check it out if you want!
Marisol Avila - Happy Birthday Beautiful! Hope you have a blessed year! You deserve the best – thanks for sharing your life with all of us!
Dana Banana - I will make peppernuts with you!! Plan on it.
Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - Well girlie I hope you have THE best day evah. You’re a young one! Live it up and tell us all about it:)
Kelly - Happy Birthday Meg! Today is my birthday as well! (32) Hope you have a WONDERFUL day!!!!
Lindsay - HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I hope you have an awesome day! Have you heard of Lynda.com? It has tutorials on all things Photoshop and more. I think there’s a monthly cost, but it would definitely help you learn it! Good luck!
brantlee - Happy Birthday Meg! Hope you have a great day!
Vera - HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MEG!!!!!!!!!!!
Kristi - you rock! have a great day!
Stacy Christy - Happy Birthday Meg!! I can only hope I’m as fabulous as you are when I’m 35! Have a wonderful day!
Brice - Happy Birthday. We still love our pictures from last fall.
And I just had to comment that you can’t “make a painting.” That is what a craft person would do. An artist paints or creates, not makes. 🙂
Cori - Happy Birthday, you’re so young! Have a great day. btw I made your Apple Bar recipe this weekend after picking apples with the family. Now my dh requested that for his birthday cake!
bobbie - Happy Birthday! You are entering 35 with grace and style.. and a carmel apple martini
Routhie - Happy birthday! I love the new Whatever photo at the top too. Many happy returns. <3
Jodi - Happy Birthday Meg!
a pocket full of posies - Happy! Happy!! Birthday!!! 35 IS great!!!
Have a wonderful day!!
Many Blessings!
Jill
Lisa - Happy happy birthday! Thanks for introducing me to the summer list, crescent chicken, Hillboro, the Marion barn sale, Crazy Love, COLOR and so many other great things in this year of your life. (What is it with pork anyway? It taunts me. I have given up.) Hope you have a wonderful day!
Shauna - such a big girl!
thank you for sharing parts of your big girl life with us.
i am glad you were born.
Heather - You’ve done so much. Good for you! A very Happy Birthday – YOU are great.
Ashlee Archibald - LOL! I love your blog title!
Happy Birthday Sweet Meg! Enjoy your day, and your apple martini! You are such a hard working Momma and deserve nothing but the best! xoxox
Debby - Happy Birthday! Hope you have a wonderful day. And thank you for brightening mine!!
Rachel - You did LOTS!
And keep in mind there are decades left for you to cross of the rest of the items on your list. DECADES…
Happy Birthday!
Ali - HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my favorite blogger! Thanks for making me laugh, inspiring me, and helping me feed my family (i LOVE your recipes.)
Tyler - Happy Birthday! I am a new follower and just wanted to say you inspire me everyday:)
Tammy - Happy Birthday Meg!! You are an amazing woman who inspires so many each day!
Wendy - Happy Birthday Meg! You’ve done more in your 35 years than I have in my 41. You are awesome and you should give yourself credit for all you’ve accomplished! 🙂
Kimberlee J. - Maybe you can have a caramel apple tini next week, too.
Love ya!
angela carter - happy birthday!
Sara - Happy Birthday to You!!! We should all congratulate ourselves on our accomplishments, love that you are celebrating what you HAVE done, not dwelling on the other things! PS. Love the new whatever banner. 🙂
Kathi - Happy, happy birthday, CHICA! You always brighten my day, wishing I could brighten yours. Have a wonderful celebration and enjoy the next half to 70!
Laura - I will make and drink a margarita in your honor and celebrate the fabulous YOU!
I LOVE YOU
YOU ARE A GIFT FROM GOD
I WILLL PRAISE THE DAY YOU WERE BORN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX
Nicole Q. - Happy Birthday! You have touched so many lives with your thoughts, your creativity, your honesty, and your passions! Hope your day is full of beauty and your carmel martini is DELICIOUS!!! Take an extra long sip for me and dance in your living room! :))
(Today in my mother in law’s birthday too!)
jennibell - Happy, happy birthday!!! I love the list. . .it’s good to have goals. How did you make it so colorful and with all the different fonts? It might be more fun to have one if it was done up pretty like that 🙂 I love that you accomplished so much…and many things that weren’t on the list too — yea! We would be awesome neighbors I think 🙂 Have a great day and enjoy your martini at LUNCH. . .it’s the little things, huh?
Sarah @ Dream in Domestic - Happy birthday, Meg! I think you still accomplished a lot…that was a long list and a year is only so many days.
Kait - Happy birthday Meg!
Robin - happy birthday 🙂
Katie - Happy Birthday! Personally I think you did a lot plus the everyday things you do and being a mom of 5! Thanks so much for the art website…I glanced over it last night and it looks so fabulous! I can’t wait to see my kids try some of it! They are at such precious ages and I want to capture it. Blessings to you today!
lorel - have a great day Meg! love you! Happy Birthday!
alamama - Happy Birthday! Enjoy!
Krista - Happy Birthday Megan! You put a huge dent in your “TO DO” list already, plus all those other awesome EXTRA things that came up along the way. You can only plan for so much, you have to allow for chance too. Have a wonderful birthday, I am jealous about your lunchtime martini. Do you have a lunch date?
heidi @ wonder woman wannabe - I hope your birthday is GRRRRRRREAT!!!!
http://www.myvido1.com/wUWh2UZVlS04UVxI1UthTP_cis-singing-happy-birthday
Amy - Happy Birthday Meg!! Enjoy your day!!!
jennifer - Happy Birthday!
Martini’s at lunch will make any day great, if you ask me.
Laurie - Happy Birthday! I love your blog! I am a whopping 2 days older than you. Turning 35 has been rough! I made a list too 🙂 Have a great day!
LobotoME - Happy Birthday Meg! Wishing you many more years filled with health, happiness & adventure! xo, jenny
maria - Happiest Birthday Wishes Meg!!
Keri @ Keri's Korner - Happy birthday!!K
linda - happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday deaaaarrrrrrrr meeeeeegggggggg, haaaapppyyyyyy birrrrttttthhhhdddaaayyyyy tooooooo yoouuuuuuuuuuu…hope you have a wonderful day…find time to relax and enjoy and celebrate YOU!!! 🙂
Gevay - Happy Birthday! Thanks for sharing your life with us! Hope 35 is an awesome year!
Nancy from the Chicago 'burbs - Happy Birthday Meg. I hope your day is fantastic. Thank you for your blog. I love your honesty, humor, and beautiful pictures.
Cassie - happy happy birthday miss meg!!!!
love you!
wish i were having an apple martini with you over lunch today! 🙂
tasha roe - Happy, Happy Birthday!!
What an exciting year!
have a great bday!
Holly - Happy Birthday Meg!
Emily@remodelingthislife - Happy birthday Meg! I like that you made a list of the things you did do.
Hope this next year is just as full as the last!
xoxo
Gemma - Happy Birthday Meg!!!
I hope you have a great day. Take lots of pictures so you can share them with us : )
Gemma x
amy jupin - i am proud of you.
what a year of accomplishments!
happy birthday megan!
Micah - Happy Happy Birthday!
elizabeth of course - HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!!!! You have the prettiest birthday list I’ve ever seen!
jodi @ back40life - Happy, happy birthday Meg! Hope it’s the best one ever!
Janet Biernacki - HAPPY 35th BIRTHDAY!!
When I turned 36, I liked that number so well, I stayed on it for 4 years! But I’m long past that now and can honestly say, being 52 is just as sweet.
You are a joy to read, and see your photos. I know some days you question your sanity, and parenting. Hang on little momma, you’re doing just fine. I know it’s crazy days, but they don’t last forever.
I am flying from Kansas to Indiana today in honor of a delightful friends 50th birthday today, also. I shall raise a toast you both this evening.
May you have cake, and joy.
Vicki - Happy Birthday Meg!! Hope it’s a great one!! 🙂
Angela B. - Happy Happy Birthday!
Amy Lynne - Happy Birthday! I’ll be joining you at 35 in February! I hope you do have a great day and a great year!
Chaos-Jamie - Happy Birthday, Meggie! 35 isn’t sooooo bad…yet. 😉 No, it WON’T be!
FeFe - Happy Birthday to YOU, MEG…my favorite blogger! I had to laugh at the spray paint comment. I was a little disappointed the other night when they didn’t card me for mine. Hope you have a fantabulous day!
carolyn - happy birthday. you are such a sweetie. you make me smile and even cry sometimes. xo
tami - Happy Birthday dollface!
Cindy Ashmore - Happy Birthday Meg!
Lisa - I hope you have a wonderful birthday Meg!! Your list inspired me to make my own because I think everyone should have goals, no matter how silly. If we didn’t have anything to strive for, the monotony of motherhood might just drive us crazy!!
Lane - Happy Birthday! I say you accomplished A LOT!!!! Congrats!!! My birthday was last Monday and I’d like a caramel apple martini too! Where in the world can I get one?! I’ve never even heard of one!!
Have a great day!
pam - Happy Birthday! Perhaps to help you celebrate 35 even more…I’ll share where you’re NOT. In the 50’s you might look at the title of this post…. halfway to seventy…..and be stupified because you might not have a clue what the answer is. Okay to be fair it’s early in the morning…I’m sure I would have known the answer MUCH faster if it was noon. I’m not sure I could think of 35 things to do. Hope your day is GRAND and that the Martini goes down smooth.
Gwyn Rosser - Happy, happy birthday to YOU!!!!! Keep on makin’ those lists. It’s what will keep you young. For real. I totally believe that. Having goals gets you “out there” and that’s a very good thing.
Enjoy your day. Blessings,
Gwynie Pie
The Pink Tractor
http://www.gwynrosser.blogspot.com
julia - Happy Birthday!
I’m old enough to be your babysitter.
Tracy - Happy birthday Meg! You could look at it this way…you are 29 with 6 years experience, that is how I look at it and I am turning 38 this year. Being older and wiser (he! he!) I can say that 35 isn’t bad, it is another number and you are only as old as you feel. You have accomplished enough and more than you set out to do. I have a daily list and a project list and while I know I will never accomplish everything it is fun to try…it gets all the “extra” stuff out of my brain so I can focus on what is important.
Hope you have a wonderfull amazing day!
Jen@thecottagenest - Happy half way to seventy Meg! I loved reading your last years list. I loved it’s whimsy and randomness. That’s my kind of list. I hope you have a wonderful day.
Lisa - Happy birthday! So many wonderful things that you DID cross off your list. Going to Africa has got to be worth much more than three.
When I read the title I spun out a little. I am 35 in a few months and thinking that is half way to 70 – wow that crazy! Now I must revisit my list to see how many I have crossed off. MMM
Denise - Happy Birthday Meg!!! Thanks for making our world more colorful & pretty! Enjoy your day 🙂
tara - ah to be 35 again!! you are beautiful.
happy birthday dear meg!
oxox
lorelei - Happy Birthday Meg! ROCK ON!!
Teresa - Happy Birthday! I pray that God continues to bless you with happiness and good health!
tam - Happy Birthday!!! I hope you have a fantastic day! my 35th is right around the corner….eeek.
Shann - Happy birthday! 🙂
Tracy - Happy birthday, Meg! Have a great day my friend! 35 is a just a number so yes, it is will be GREAT for sure! Enjoy that Apple Martini with your lunch! Big hugs! xoxoxo :o)
Sandy - Happy birthday Meg! This is my first comment ever – but I’ve read your blog everyday in the past few months (and I love it!). Lots of hugs all the way from Sydney, Australia!!
Kat - Happy birthday fabulous, fun, inspiring, colourful, real and beautiful Meg!!
I hope you have a wonderful day, enjoy your martini, get to eat lots of cake and dance sometime soon.
Cheers to you 🙂
Kirsten J - Happy Birthday, sweet girlie!!! And…*ahem*…I just turned 1/2 way to 98, if that’s any concillation….
Did I just admit that??????????????
Widge - Happy Birthday!!!!!!
I turned halfway to 60 this year and I’m still trying not to freak out 😉
Your list is fab
angela - Oh, have a BEAUTIFUL day!!! Happy Happy Birthday to a wonderful blogger!!!!
edie - Looks like a great year Meg! You sure have made mine brighter. Thanks for all the rainbow inspiration that you bring. And yay for you on the martini at lunch. Can you fit the dancing in then too?
hugs and happy happy day!
edie
Patti - Happy birthday! Thanks for being born so you can be around to make all of our lives a little happier each day…just by doing what you do! 🙂
Julie - Happy Birthday Meg! Make it GREAT!
leonie - Happy birthday, I too turned 35 this year, I started a list, boy my list is LONG!!! too long I think….. but I already have two things ticked and I have been 35 for two whole months….. also my things are very BIG and I want them done before I turn the dreaded 40….. so I have a while… hope you have a fabulous day Leonie xx
Wendi Siyajuck - Happy Birthday!!
Anja - Happy birthday! Have a wonderful day, lunch martini and all… 😉
Sarah W., Oregon - Today (the 30th) is my 35th birthday too!! I’ve been feeling weird about it, but sharing it with you makes it just a bit easier. I asked my husband if I’m middle aged now (he’s younger.) he said not quite, but almost. Blah. Regardless, I thank our Lord for another year of life and health and joy. Happy B-Day!
Ruth - happy birthday wonderful lady!!
laurenjean - happy birthday !Thanks for being AWESOME!!
Catriona - You are just 5 weeks younger than me which means our lives have run (sort of) paralell-I like that! Have a great day filled with treats. x
Sonia - Happy Birthday!!
Jeannine - Happy Birthday Meg!
I’m sorry I don’t comment often, but I LOVE reading your blog!
Hope you have a wonderful day =)
Four Flights - Happy Birthday Meg! I think the things you did do, especially the Africa part, counts for 5 times that. And I don’t blame you for not making another list. I’ve seen quite a few of these lists floating around Blogland and it just seems really overwhelming to me.