Over-stuffed With Cake But Overflowing with Gratitude!

Celebrating 5 birthdays, Jim, myself, Emily and 2 boys I babysit, within a week

can leave one feeling a little over-caked...Cheesecake, chocolate cake and carrot cake, oh my!

(I was surprised and treated to a scrumptious carrot-cake baked by my daughter Emily using her hubby's grandma's recipe; the BEST carrot cake I have ever tasted!)

So, while well-stuffed with cake the heart overflows with gratitude!

A collage of the birthday boys-girls-cakes-meals!

For seasoned thrills where seasons spill

For give and take of Time’s free will

For hope and heartache intertwined

One by the other, more defined

For strength for toil, for slumber sweet

For days that never hit ‘repeat’

For boys full of mischief and noise

For girls in pink with dolly-toys

For suppertime where laughter lilts

And adds a patch to memory-quilts

For vintage of life’s distilled joys

That surge of ebbing years deploys

For all the gifts we cannot keep

But leave us breathless in their sweep

For loving’s bittersweet reward

Of hold, let go, we thank You, Lord

© Janet Martin