Happy Birthday to ME!

All day I have heard Paul McCartney in my head:

They say it's your birthday!

All day I kept thinking that I should be really thankful for my parents indiscretion.  They met on a rainy night in Vancouver, in fact, my mother had run out of gas and my Dad was on the highway patrol.  He helped her get her car started and asked her to a Christmas party.  (This is the only story that I have ever heard....)

Wham-bam.  9 months later....

One of the lessons I have tried to teach my kids is: consequences.  There can be lifelong consequences to the most simplest act.  A DUI, a criminal record, an STD, a child.

So today, I am most thankful to the simple act of the hook up of my parents.  Thank you Dad for your lack of will power.  Thank you Mom for your inability to keep your pants on.  To this: I raise my glass today and say Thank you.

And kids: remember this.  1 small act--meant a life long consequence.  Me.