Another Year Older

This weekend I celebrated my birthday.  For the perfect fall day, my family and I went to the apple orchard...how I love the apple orchard! 


When I was little, I would get excited for birthdays because it meant birthday parties with kids from school, lots of presents, and cake -- pretty much what any kid likes about birthdays! 


However, as I've grown up, I've realized that I'm no longer a kid who expects (or even wants) huge birthday parties.  To me, the most important thing is time spent together, the words handwritten inside a card, and the memories made together. I know that makes me sound like a boring old adult, but it's true. The most important things are not really "things" at all. 


So maybe the birthday saying "another year older and wiser" comes with the wisdom of slowly realizing what is the most important thing in life: love. 


It always goes back to love, doesn't it?  There's so many different types of love, but in the end love is love. And as the saying goes, "Life is love, and if you miss love, you miss life."