tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post2325650372178550861..comments2024-03-29T21:11:37.724+10:00Comments on down to earth: Last birthday post ... I promise ; - )Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-17155630122411722622008-04-15T20:02:00.000+10:002008-04-15T20:02:00.000+10:00Actually, I really enjoy your posts on aging! They...Actually, I really enjoy your posts on aging! They are good ones.<BR/><BR/>Now to go and see what all the other comments are about!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-34296096697151254102008-04-15T14:37:00.000+10:002008-04-15T14:37:00.000+10:00Dear Rhonda,Happy Birthday! Keep posting...I read ...Dear Rhonda,<BR/>Happy Birthday! Keep posting...I read your blog everyday and really enjoy it. I've been almost white since I was about 40 and I quite agree...I'm not interested in being just like everyone else. My 60th doesn't come for several more years and I figure I've earned every white hair that I've got!!! LOL Hope your birthday is spent doing just what you would like to do!<BR/>Blessings, Aunt BeaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-18722412960727176992008-04-15T13:27:00.000+10:002008-04-15T13:27:00.000+10:00Better last than never...Happy Birthday Rhonda! I ...Better last than never...Happy Birthday Rhonda! I hope to be as down-to-earth as you when I'm 60. Thank you for being you!I Am: Anna Lovely Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00234975371534880616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-81664636256040850572008-04-15T08:26:00.001+10:002008-04-15T08:26:00.001+10:00Hi Rhonda,Many many happy returns of the day.Loved...Hi Rhonda,<BR/>Many many happy returns of the day.<BR/>Loved your post, most time I am very happy in my skin, wish I could loose some weight, medications don't help this, and often wish that my body was more agile, but I am happy being my age, 57 next month, wife to Dh, mum to 6 MIL to 5, and Ma to 15 aboslutely gorgegous little ones, who would want to change,<BR/>Love and hugs<BR/>LorraineChookasmumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08419723204569278592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-1254044296490022392008-04-15T08:26:00.000+10:002008-04-15T08:26:00.000+10:00A special Happy Birthday to a special lady! Glad ...A special Happy Birthday to a special lady! Glad to hear you had a wonderful time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-16653312522228601032008-04-15T05:56:00.000+10:002008-04-15T05:56:00.000+10:00Happy Birthday, Rhonda Jean! I loved this post.......Happy Birthday, Rhonda Jean! I loved this post....a wonderful affirmation of things I have been struggling with.Tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13039504643371465874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-27606716904332945072008-04-15T04:42:00.000+10:002008-04-15T04:42:00.000+10:00Happy Birthday RhondaI am glad you had a lovely da...Happy Birthday Rhonda<BR/>I am glad you had a lovely day and hope life just gets better and better for you.<BR/>Some times I think it would be good to be 20 again but if I am honest the benefits dont outway the drawbacks. I would be more cute (hard to beleive but I would!), I would ache less after digging but I would know so much less, in knowledge but more important wisdom. Nope,life gets better the better at it you get!<BR/>Best Wishes<BR/>Lizzie<BR/>45 and dyeing my hair becuase I like it like this!Lizzie @ her homeworldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18257339462096688164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-26711421368554179312008-04-15T03:32:00.000+10:002008-04-15T03:32:00.000+10:00Thank you so much for your wise advice, as usual. ...Thank you so much for your wise advice, as usual. This is one I shall keep in my files. Also many thanks to your guest poster. I sometimes feel that I could have 'done something' with my life and forget what a blessing it was to be able to be at home with each of my children. Enjoy your day, which even with a lie-in may have started by now (I'm in the UK 12 hours or so behind you)<BR/><BR/>CharisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-26854377591604177302008-04-14T22:25:00.000+10:002008-04-14T22:25:00.000+10:00Happy Birthday to you! I too will be having a bir...Happy Birthday to you! I too will be having a birthday on the 15th, my 62nd. Here is a little poem I wrote the year I turned 59. Hope you like it. (I love insects and bugs - hence the wasp)<BR/><BR/>If Ever I Should Choose to Try<BR/><BR/>If ever I should choose to try<BR/>A thing that is different from that who am I,<BR/>A wasp I'll be and I'll take you along<BR/>To buzz and frolic the whole day long!<BR/><BR/>We'll pause to taste the sweetest flowers<BR/>Ang laugh away the countless hours.<BR/>The bees and ants will think we're most crazy,<BR/>For the wasps they know are not so lazy.<BR/><BR/>Then to home, a cup of tea, and we'll both sigh<BR/>To savor the time when we played in the sky.<BR/>That's waht I think that I shall do!<BR/>If ever I should choose to try<BR/>A thing that is different from that who am I.<BR/><BR/>Have a great day tomorrow. Just so you know: I'm going to stomp up and down in the creek below our house and get mud all over me. I'll probably kiss one of the new born baby rabbits in the garden and eat three pieces of cake too..things a little ole respectable lady would never be thought to do. Oh what fun!<BR/><BR/>DianeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-343741490711856002008-04-14T22:02:00.000+10:002008-04-14T22:02:00.000+10:00Happy Birthday to you!!! I hope it is the best ye...Happy Birthday to you!!! I hope it is the best year yet. I'll tell you one thing, if it's true that you reap what you sow, you are bound to have a wonderful life.<BR/><BR/>Blessings, and many many more wonderful years!<BR/>HeatherJAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-28109598028605795632008-04-14T20:59:00.000+10:002008-04-14T20:59:00.000+10:00Baie geluk! That's Afrikaans for Happy birthday or...Baie geluk! That's Afrikaans for Happy birthday or congratulations! May God bless you in the coming year! ericaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-20867832549516903212008-04-14T20:51:00.000+10:002008-04-14T20:51:00.000+10:00I was going to wait to post congratulations until ...I was going to wait to post congratulations until tomorrow, but since you won't be posting (enjoy your sleep in!) I'll say happy birthday to you now! Congrats, congrats. May there be many many more!<BR/><BR/>About your post, wonderful! Love it. I've gotten some grey hairs since the first pregnancy and dyed it a few months ago because I hated it. But the dye didn't really stick so after the grey came through again I just thought oh what the h*ll and now I just leave it like it wants to be. <BR/>I've never really had a problem with self-esteem much but in the last couple of years it has gotten down instead of up. I really feel insecure sometimes about whether people really like me, looking frumpy etc. It's not a good feeling and also fairly new to me. I guess what you say encourages me to think more about what's going on inside my head. :-)<BR/>We planted some rocket salad and a blueberry bush yesterday, they're in big tubs on our balcony. I figured we can at least try to grow something even though we don't have a yard. Rocket salad is insanely expensive here (same goes for blueberries) and we love it, so let's hope it grows!<BR/><BR/>Christine from the NL<BR/>PS: I'm curious to hear more about your sons being so close apart. As a mother of two very close in age I like hearing how others handled that challenge, but I understand when you feel it's too private and don't want to post about it (sometime).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-23791328715100107212008-04-14T20:28:00.000+10:002008-04-14T20:28:00.000+10:00I'm currently reading Barbara Blackman's autobiogr...I'm currently reading Barbara Blackman's autobiographical reflections (another inspirational Australian women) and reading this reminded me of you and your post-<BR/><BR/>"There comes a time in the middle years, at the passing of the half century, to look at oneself in the mirror and see, that now the shadows begin to fall on the other side of the mountain. It is time to pass through the mirror, to reverse the images of one's life, and enter into the Looking-glass Land. It is time to set about doing those things long dreamed of" (pg.339). <BR/> <BR/>Congratulations and Happy Birthday!<BR/><BR/>BellaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-85038866989785900212008-04-14T20:18:00.000+10:002008-04-14T20:18:00.000+10:00Happy Birthday Rhonda!-I really enjoy your blog (I...Happy Birthday Rhonda!-I really enjoy your blog (I'm one of those anonymous readers)and philosophy on life (especially on aging-this post). Have a great day!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-5912672362216387892008-04-14T19:15:00.000+10:002008-04-14T19:15:00.000+10:00Happy birthday, Rhonda!I am so glad you are true t...Happy birthday, Rhonda!<BR/><BR/>I am so glad you are true to yourself.<BR/><BR/>hugs,<BR/><BR/>KateAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-6500766494856619342008-04-14T18:28:00.000+10:002008-04-14T18:28:00.000+10:00Rhonda, wonderful post (yet again) and so good to ...Rhonda, wonderful post (yet again) and so good to see a woman who's comfortable in her own skin. I find my life just gets better and better as I get older, I'd hate to go back to my twenties and thirties! We have a lot of aries birthdays this week...mine's on friday. I shall be proud to be 44! (though sometimes I have to pause and think which year it is!! Ha!) I'll be thinking of you tomorrow. Happy Birthday. Diana xwalter and mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03654023053222721637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-49611800862219533732008-04-14T17:06:00.000+10:002008-04-14T17:06:00.000+10:00Happy Birthday for tomorrow Rhonda.There were so m...Happy Birthday for tomorrow Rhonda.<BR/>There were so many wise words in your last post that it is hard to comment on just one, but I thought this one quote was so amazingly correct, it really struck a chord with me.<BR/><BR/>"you feel you’re too skinny, too tall, not pretty enough, have the wrong colour eyes, or hair, or shoes, all those things are signs you don’t feel comfortable with you, and no matter what you change, you won’t change that feeling until you develop self esteem."<BR/><BR/>I have suffered with low self-esteem all my life and its only now in my mid-thirties that I have started to feel more comfortable under my own skin. confidence and self-esteeem really does come with age. <BR/><BR/>I hope you have a wonderful birthday, you truly deserve it.<BR/>Best wishes<BR/>Steph xStephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17373535635380246835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-90643981319947551382008-04-14T16:58:00.000+10:002008-04-14T16:58:00.000+10:00Cherrie, that photo was taken about three months a...Cherrie, that photo was taken about three months ago. My hair actually is greyer in real life and still has a lot of dark brown as well. When I'm all gussied up for work tomorrow, I'll take a new photo and try to post it on the blog tomorrow afternoon. :- )<BR/><BR/>PS, I think I look 60.Rhonda Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00175785349529109084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-52380419091458698802008-04-14T16:23:00.000+10:002008-04-14T16:23:00.000+10:00Dear RhondaWant to wish you the best birthday ever...Dear Rhonda<BR/>Want to wish you the best birthday ever. I will even sing a little "happy birthday to you tomorrow morning as I wake, knowing that you are "sleeping in". Enjoy the snuggle in of your bed as you no doubt will awake at the same time. Thank you so much for all your inspirational posts. They help so many more people than you will ever know.<BR/>Julie in GeraldtonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-47154502267762686192008-04-14T13:21:00.000+10:002008-04-14T13:21:00.000+10:00Rhonda, Happy Birthday for tomorrow. Have a great...Rhonda, <BR/><BR/>Happy Birthday for tomorrow. Have a great sleep in, if you can that is - your body must be so used to early rising it may be hard to do so. Over the past couple of weeks I've changed my rising time and even so early on it's getting harder to sleep in.Cheryl@Gingerbread Craftshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12189189331024564663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-76678500574713608112008-04-14T13:20:00.000+10:002008-04-14T13:20:00.000+10:00Great post Rhonda, but you know you are my role mo...Great post Rhonda, but you know you are my role model. I'm about to give up hair dye. I've been thinking about it for awhile now, but not sure how to go about growing it out without getting it cut short. My nephew knits beanies and he gave me a new one for this winter last weekend so I'm going to wear that all winter and hope that it helps me with the growing out bit. As he is off to travel the world next month and I probably won't see him again for a couple of years it will also keep him close to me. <BR/><BR/>Enjoy tomorrow, <BR/>love your attitude<BR/>cheers LennyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-51658748120035798732008-04-14T13:05:00.000+10:002008-04-14T13:05:00.000+10:00Happy Birthday Rhonda! Your words are always appr...Happy Birthday Rhonda! Your words are always appreciated, so feel free to express them all you want. Thank you for being authentic! May you enjoy the actual day of your birthday and best wishes for this year to come!Simply Authentichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10149087342124493037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-65752306204722846692008-04-14T12:58:00.000+10:002008-04-14T12:58:00.000+10:00Hi Rhonda, I read your page every day and love you...Hi Rhonda, I read your page every day and love your attitude about the grey hair although I do dye mine as a rebellion against all the things I was not allowed to do when I was married. I never thought that I would dye my hair, however, because my mother didn't. She had alweays been treated like she was too young and so treasured the fact that grey hair showed her age and wisdom just as it says in the Bible book of Proverbs that greyheadednss is a sign of wisdom. But I just wanted to ask whether your photo was up to date or an older one as you certainly don't have anything like my greys and I am only 45. Hugs Cherriewillywagtailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04161501326916060091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-40986717502998354592008-04-14T12:11:00.000+10:002008-04-14T12:11:00.000+10:00Hi Rhonda JeanHappy Birthday for tomorrow. I'm so ...Hi Rhonda Jean<BR/>Happy Birthday for tomorrow. I'm so glad you enjoyed your celebration at the weekend.<BR/>CiaraCiarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02376279116448204528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5089828552519076506.post-48610102370349349922008-04-14T10:58:00.000+10:002008-04-14T10:58:00.000+10:00I actually think I like "ME" more as I age. I spe...I actually think I like "ME" more as I age. I spent years and a small fortune chemically straightening and coloring my hair. A couple years ago my hair started to gray and it was very wirey curly, so I opted to stop with it all. <BR/>I actually get more compliments now than I ever got spending all that money and time. People seem to know it's natural curl and always compliment my highlights. I giggle and tell them those "highlights" are gray hairs. lol They look a little embarrassed but I am proud. I think they look nice.<BR/>I guess there's something to be said for being happy with what God gave you? lol <BR/>I truly wish you a wonderful birthday and a very fruitful year.<BR/>Blessings,<BR/>ChristieChristie Grothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15884314946318649337noreply@blogger.com