Missing Birthdays

I try to send birthday cards to the kids in my life, including my (former) step-daughters 3 sons, and the children of my nieces.  I have reminders set on the computer, early enough to get cards out to the birthday child by their birthday.

The regular reader will remember I was without computer access for a while, which lead to me missing a birthday.  Well, today, I realized I missed another, a sibling of the first missed birthday.  Neither is good, especially because I have been remembering other birthdays in the family, but at least now it has happened twice, so hopefully, neither child will feel left out.

Can you imagine how it is to be a child, and see everyone else remembered and you are not.  That lost, lonely, abandoned, sinking feeling that you are not loved, remembered or valued as a person.  I do not want to do that to any child.  

I may have to develop a different plan for remembering birthdays. 

Lady Raider Basketball

At a community meeting tonight, I met two Lady Raider Basketball http://www.texastech.com/index.aspx?path=wbball players:  Japreece Dean and Brittany Brewer.  I told Japreece Dean that I had seen her play, and I had my season tickets, and Sunday was my birthday, and that a win would be a great birthday present.  That was fun.  There were several other people from the team at the meeting.  I do not do small talk well, so I just wished the players luck and left.