Hi, all awesome Silver Bloggers!
Today is the last day to post in this month's #BOM about Celebrations on the occasion of the first anniversary of our community.
And let me start with the sentence I quoted at the beginning, which seems perfect to me. I feel fortunate for the life I have had. Despite the stumbles and difficulties, if I look back, I can't help but smile, even if some of those smiles are laden with a little bit of Saudade.
Therefore, celebrating for me is much more than a party or a celebration for a special date. Anniversaries, weddings, birthdays, and so on. It is also to celebrate the small nice things that happen every day in our life. It's to celebrate being alive.
Celebrations over the year
I grew up in the middle of big family celebrations. I only have one sister, but my family is very close-knit, and I grew up surrounded by many cousins, aunts, uncles, and also friends. Holidays were always with family. And I have many happy childhood memories of family gatherings and celebrations.
When I grew up, we continued to celebrate together any special occasion, birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, baptisms, marriages, and any other special event meant to be together and a good excuse to have a get-together.
For some years, holidays and celebrations like Christmas became a tradition to celebrate in a cabin that my parents and uncles have in Merida, a Venezuelan Andean state. On those holidays, of course, we ate a lot. Food was always present at our gatherings as many of us like to eat and cook.
But in the last years, those family celebrations are no longer the same. My father and some uncles and aunts have passed. Many of my cousins ​​have left the country due to Venezuela's political and economic crisis. However, we haven't stopped celebrating, we can sometimes be just the three of us, but our celebration continues to be special as long as we are together.
Big parties have never been my favs. I don't need a DJ or a band, a banquet, and many people who probably mean nothing to me. Celebrating is having my affections close, sharing a delicious meal, drinking a glass of wine, sometimes visiting a special place, and giving thanks for being together.
But celebrating is also being grateful every morning for a new day. I have many reasons to celebrate every day. And give thanks for the good times I already had and for the good times to come.
And as for the first anniversary of the Silver Bloggers Community. I can only congratulate everyone who is part of it. I am so grateful to have met so many silver friends in this space. But most of all, I thank the mind behind this idea, @lizelle Silver Blond Lizzie who made it possible for all of us to be here, and her partner in crime @fionasfavourites Silver Flower. I toast with you 🥂 and with all the community members.
And of course, with my peeps in the team, the Dude @mondoshawan Silverfish, and the incorrigible and charming mad Scotsman @tengolotodo Silver Scot. Who, a few weeks ago, offered to make a chicken dinner for the Silver Bloggers. @dswigle SiverSwigle can confirm I'm not lying about this offer from Silver Scot. So who's up for it? Hehe.
This is my out-of-competition post for the Silver Bloggers community #BOM, this month about Celebrations.
Remember you still have some hours to join as the deadline is today, May, 9 at midnight UTC. You can check instructions and prizes at We are One: Happy Birthday to Us!.
Thanks for reading!
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May 9, 2022
