Happy Happy Spring! Blessings from a Spring Birthday!

Yesterday was the first day of spring and it was my birthday.  I love to celebrate birthdays and I certainly love to celebrate spring.  I was not sure of how my birthday was going to be since our LL has been causing us some great stress with the constant threats (see March 19, 2011 post).  But I told my husband that we were going to have a 24 hour ban of LL talking.

At 12:02 am on March 20th, my son who is at UNC Charlotte sent the first text of my birthday wishing me a Happy Birthday.  What a wonderful boy!  I picked up my birthday gift from the boys and Mike on Wednesday, A KINDLE!!!! So, I already had my birthday present.  My younger son came out of his room (YEAH!!!) and said Happy Birthday Mom, you get a birthday hug!!!  I have two wonderful boys.  Mike was in charge of my birthday dinner, we had steak (medium-rare for me!), baked potato, cole slaw, baked beans, garlic bread and instead of birthday cake, fresh strawberries and ice cream.

The birthday card my husband was going to get me is a refurbished table I found that he and I painted and decorated with mosaics.  Now that will last much longer than a card!! It will always be on display.

I found myself smiling and counting myself very lucky throughout the day.  I felt loved by my husband and my boys.  They may not realize just how much their actions and words meant to me, but it was one of the best birthdays I can remember.  It was not because of expensive dinners and gifts.  It was because of a disgusting table and chair set I got for free and a hug and a text message.  It was the love they showed to me out of the willingness of their own hearts.

May you feel the love and joy of this spring season.

Taking Care of the Written Word,
Dannielyn

Amazon Kindle Free E Books for PC

I love a good book, but there are times when getting to the book store or library is not possible.  So many times I needed something to read but the stores and library were closed, hey it was after 9:00 at night when this need to read took over.  I found over a year ago that you can read Amazon Kindle books for free even if you do not have a Kindle.  They will allow you to download Kindle for PC.  There are so many good books to choose from and the titles of the free books change all the time.  Here is what you need to do if you want to get a book for free on your PC.

Go to Amazon.com and click on Kindle Ebooks.
Click on the left hand side list of options on Free Ebook Collections
You will see a paragraph with the limited time promotional and classics.  Click either one of these for the types of books you are interested in.  I always check the limited time promotional books first.
Click on the book you want to download and Amazon will instruct you to click to buy the book.  If you do not have the Kindle for PC downloaded it will instruct you to do so now.  Once that is downloaded all you will have to do is click on the download for Kindle for the PC.

The next time you choose a book, you will only have to click the book, click to buy and click Kindle for PC.

I do a lot of writing where I need to have access to a number of classics and found this to be a great source for me.  If you have a college or high school student that is in need of some of these classics for school, this would be a great alternative to having to buy books.

Taking care of the written word,
Dannielyn