Stop it. 
I won't allow you to talk about my friend that way.  
She has a good heart and she feels things very deeply.  
She sees the good in me when I can't see it in myself 
and reminds me of how special I am.  

She works very hard to give the best of herself to the 
people she loves and she knows her best is different 
from day to day.   She walks her talk, showing us what 
she stands for by the way she lives.  

She's always expanding in beauty and she keeps her 
mind and body active with her diverse interests.  She 
makes me laugh.  She gives the best hugs.  When she 
smiles her whole body lights up.  

I'm not blind to her faults but I know from personal 
experience her goodness out weighs them 10 to 1.  
She's the person I'd call at 3am whom I know would 
be right there for me.  She's a joy to be with and I am 
so honoured to have her in my life.   As I write about her 
I feel a warm smile coming to my face and tears roll down 
my cheeks because she means so much more to me than 
I can possibly express with these words.

So stop talking about yourself like that.  
Because I love you so much, I won't tolerate 
anyone insulting you...not even you.

After my wonderful birthday I hit a time of adjustment that required more of me than I could possibly share in this short post.

And then I went into prep mode for a long planned family vacation.  

It was one of my dreams come true and that has me reeling too.  It was so much better than I imagined or could have planned.  But that's the thing about dreams, isn't it?  You plan for what you want to happen, you work out all the steps you have to do to make the dream happen and along the way you sometimes struggle.  Once the dream is real it's more magical and better and brighter than you could have imagined because the work that you did to get to the dream has changed you.  

So I place this here just to let you know you have permission to pause and remember who you were then move forward into who you are.