Happy Birthday Ady :-)

Tomorrow is Ady’s 42nd birthday. He doesn’t know anything about his birth or indeed anything before what his own earliest memories are but I hope that tonight his mother is thinking of him, on the eve of the day she gave birth to him 42 years ago.

I first met Ady as a work colleague and friend about 16 years ago, I remember his 29th birthday as we were close friends by then and it was the day he passed his driving test. By his 30th birthday we were a couple with our own home and I organised for us to meet friends for drinks in a pub in Chichester which was where he lived in his teens and did all his teenage drinking and socialising. I’d arranged for another 20 odd of his friends to be there. On his 40th birthday we’d just moved back home two weeks before and I’d planned a surprise party for him long distance in our local pub. We walked over there and met 40 friends many of whom we’d not seen for a few years. Hopefully for his 50th I will plan something else spectacular, hopefully several of you will be there to celebrate it with us. 🙂

Tomorrow we will be spending the day with my parents and then on Sunday we will spend the day with his brother. For Ady, ironically given his own upbringing family is very important to him. The sun is due to shine and he’s even got a brand new Pompey top as a gift to wear to mark the occassion!

You are my sunshine, you give me warmth
You are my rain, you refresh me
You are my winter, the thrill of Christmas
You are my spring, my hope of future
You are my summer, my endless days of sunshine
You are my autumn, the beauty of a life already started with more future waiting in the wings
You are my food, you nourish me and give me strength
You are my water, you quench me
You are my history, shared stories, private jokes, a millions memories, albums full of photos
You are my future, stepping hand in hand into what lies ahead
You are my celebrations, my laughter and my song
You are my commiserations, always there to show me how things are going so right, even when they are going so wrong
You are my applause, my cheerleader, my biggest fan
You are my hero, when you say it is alright, I know it will be
You are my strength, I lean on you
You are my conscience; you help me see the right thing to do
You are my missing pieces, you complete me
You are my day, even when not with me, you shape the structure of my life
You are my night, lying in your arms dreaming of you
You are my faith, I believe in you

You are all of this and so much more
You are the father of my children, my husband, my lover, my love, my Ady.