all you need is love

I got some good doses of love yesterday. My minister encouraged me to be myself which is always sound advice. And in the evening a friend commented on how she had missed my hugs - being appreciated is such an affirmation for me and I guess for lots of us. I got to be kind on numerous occasions and that's a key thing for me. Whilst being kind is no bad thing and clearly great to do as much as possible, I am aware that too much of my self worth is wrapped up in whether I'm kind. I want to like myself all the time and not only when I'm "doing good" if that makes any sense.
I was awake so thought I'd get cracking with some of my computer tasks. Today I mainly want to pay attention to my kids and they rightly don't like it when I divert my attention to the screen so I may even turn it off so I can fully be with them. We have a long list of things we're hoping to do together - some are tasks but some will hopefully be fun. We have an appointment with a local cake lady to discuss the design of my birthday cake. Since the being 40 is only an excuse for celebrating, I don't want that to be the focus of the cake's decoration. The theme - in the choir songs too, and of my life - is love, and so the 3 of us are looking forwards to seeing how this might translate in cake. I'll keep you posted - tho not literally. She did say that fruit cake is much easier to cut into small pieces, and could even be sent to those who aren't attending. So I did contemplate it. But I don't like fruit cake and as it's my birthday, I thought it best to go for something I like. But I will in 3 weeks share a picture. In the meantime, all we need is love, love; love is all we need.