* It's Andi's birthday *

[PinkGirl]

Happy Birthday to AndiBB ... hope you have a great day!!!

[nitewind]

Happy Birthday Andi! Many, Many More!
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[Mary Anne in TX]

Best wishes to you, Andi! What a great day to celebrate and appreciate your gifts to us year round! Lots of love and hugs on your special day! ma

[Vi Schorpp]

Have a wonderful birthday and thanks for all your input on the board.

[Margerie]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANDI!! Hope you can seize the day!

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[Vi Schorpp]

What a beautiful greeting for Andi!

[Catherine]

Happy Birthday to the Queen of Light, Princess of Love and Friend to all.

Andi, hope you and yours are celebrating in style.

Hugs and love, Catherine

[Brenda_D]

Happy Birthday Andi! :)

[Faith in Him]

Andi,

Happy birthday. I know you are making the best of today. You make the best of EVERY day. You are an inspiration to all of us.

Enjoy,
Tonya

[WomanofSteel]

Andi, happy birthday to a truly inspiring woman, who has so much to offer all of us. God bless you dear enjoy!

[Becky]

Happy Birthday Andi. I can hear the partying from here.

[schoolteacher]

Happy Birthday Andi. Your posts have been an inspiration to me.

Amelia

[R.B.]

Happy birthday Andi,

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Have a great one - you deserve it.

RB

[hermiracles]

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Blessings
Hermiracles

[Believe51]

http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/13/13_10_12.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZRxdm603YYUS)Happy Birthday to a sweet friend, really miss hearing from you but I put that aside waiting in anticipation for that book of yours...wink, wink! Ed & I are so happy to be sharing another B-Day with you. So you Sweet Thing, enjoy your day with Paul and celebrate, celebrate, celebrate. Hope to see you on the way down to my cruise, I will call you when I hit Florida. Lots of Love>>Believe51





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[Andrea Barnett Budin]

My sweet Sisters and Bros,

Your loving wishes mean the world to me...

My beloved Friend, Pinkie, has given me one of the best presents ever. This thread! And all it has generated. I am truly touched.

Was thinking today, as I was tooling about. I believe, just after I was diagnosed, in July of '95, the day before my mastectomy, I went out into my backyard in Dix Hills, Long Island and walked straight in to my pool. No toe testing, inching my way. I was facing cancer, so engulfing myself in cold water was of any matter. I went for the slope where the deep end began. I was bouncing, treading gently, my face turned up the glorious sun that was setting, up to my chin in water.

I opened my heart as I never had before, awed by Life's beauty.
Suddenly enormous pure unconditional Universal Love touched my face and entered my body. A peace, and a Knowing filled me up. Others would later comment, What am I seeing? I was radiating Love and the Serenity that comes from Knowing I would survive it all.

I was One with What Was. I saw it as a phase I had to endure, but would somehow summon the strength and courage to get my cancer before it got me. I felt lucky. I saw my many blessings. The big little things were aglow. I was humbly grateful. I believed it could have been even worse.

If one person can defeat cancer, so can you. I wish each and every one of you to be touched with this strangely empowering awareness that you can do it.

With loving energy being sent to each of you, with my thanks for your kind words... If not for my cancer, I never would have met you all, and that would be tragic. You enrich me in remarkable ways.

Extra special thanks to my extra special Friend, the Pink One, always and forever. You are sooo on my wave length.
Andi http://cdn-cf.aol.com/se/clip_art/gstres/anmls/animals-butterfly

[dhealey]

Happy Birthday Andi! Hope you had a beautiful day!

[Jackie07]

Happy birthday! Andi. I did some checking (with our members List :) - your hubby does not look old - it is you who look very, very young in the picture. Swimming and all the 'inner strength' must have done you good.

Thanks for sharing your "Young at heart -> young at look" secret with us. I will take showers more often from now on. :)

[chrisy]

Happy birthday ABB,
And thank YOU for the gift of reminding us of your story and that there is always hope.

Enjoy your day

[Chelee]

Andi, Wishing you a VERY HAPPY BIRTDAY girl. I hope you have a terrific B-Day! Here's to many, many more to come. :)

Chelee

[StephN]

Dear Andi - Ms. Hope Incarnate.

Another great year is being marked by this day - both backward and forwards!

Thanks for the gift from you back to us. In Seattle there are very few back yard pools, but we do have ways of touching the Universe through our beautiful nature.

Hope you have your large tulip glass in hand with some really good bubbly to sip on. I am sure your family is treating you to a surprise today.

Just wondering - do you ever plan to stop taking your Vitamin H??

[Sheila]

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Happy Birthday sweet Andi...you have given us all a blessing in your words, and power and knowledge to believe there is always hope....no matter what....thank you for giving us your wisdom.....may you always bring smiles to everyone you touch....you have brought one to me!
Celebrate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[juanita]

Happy Birthday!!!!!!

[Joan M]

Andi,

Have a wonderful birthday!

Joan

[Gerri]

Happy Birthday Andi. Wishing you many, many more years of good health and happiness.

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[Bill]

Happy Birthday, Andi! Sorry I'm late to the party, but I know it was a good one.

[naturaleigh]

Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birtday to you,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAREST ANDI,
Happy Birthday to you!!


It is soooooo good to see your post again!! I have so much missed your inspiration and encouragement!!

I hope you celebrated to the fullest!!

Happy Birtday Andi!!

[SoCalGal]

Hi Andibb
I am so glad I signed on today so I can wish you a happy-happy birthday. You are a blessing in my life.
Love
Flori

[Jean]

Dear Andi,
Our very special sister!
You are a gift to the world, a person who loves, who cares, who encourages and lifts people up.
You touch so many and make a difference in the world,
because of your kindness.
Your birthday deserves to be special because you are so very special to many.
May the love you have shown to others return to you, multiplied many times over.
I wish you the happiest of birthdays
and many, many more,
so that others have time to appreciate you
as much as I do.

With Love,
jean

[harrie]

Hello Andi, my dear friend and my idol. I really, really, really want to be like you someday!!! You are my inspiration and how you approach life, love, peace, and happiness is how I am trying so hard to do myself.
Happy birthday Precious!!!
Know you are loved by so many of us.....
Muchas Alohas,
HarrieCanarie

[Colleens_Husband]

Happy Birthday Andi (definitely not a shipwreck) BB! Indulge yourself on this special day.

So the four of us wish you only the best.

Spike/Lee/Bill/Evil Lee

[tricia keegan]

Happy birthday Andi, enjoy your special day and be happy!

[Kavy]

Andi,
Happy belated birthday, and many, many more to come. I hope you had a wonderful day.
You are my inspiration. Thank you so much for taking the time to write those beautiful and encouraging posts that has helped so many on this board, specially me.
God bless you, and may He give you back all that you have given to the world.
Love,
KarlaV.

[michka]

Happy Birthday Andi! I love all your posts. You give us so much hope and support.
Michka

[Andrea Barnett Budin]

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Thank you my special friends, LOVE, Andi

[rinaina]

A very happy belated birthday to you Andi and a wish for many many more happy and healthy ones.

[lexigirl]

Dear Andi,

I am sorry I missed your birthday celebration. However, my wish is the same. I wish you a wonderful birthday and many more wonderful birthdays to follow.

Hugs,
Lexi

[Andrea Barnett Budin]

I hope you'll all take a look at my new thread -- COME MEET THE NEW ME.

I gave myself the best birthday present ever!!

Andi http://cdn-cf.aol.com/se/clip_art/gstres/anmls/animals-butterfly

[gin-tx]

Sorry I missed wishing you a happy birthday. You have been a tremendous inspiration to me and hope you had a wonderful day and party.

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[chrisy]

Thank goodness you are on birthday patrol, Pink Girl!

Happy birthday Andi....and about another 30 or 40 more!

[caya]

Sorry I missed your birthday Andi - Please accept my wishes for a happy belated birthday, with many more happy healthy ones to come.

all the best
caya

[kcherub]

Oh, no! I missed it!!!

Happy Birthday to you.
Happy Birthday to you.
Happy Birthday, Dear Andi...
Happy Birthday to you!
(And many more...)

Hope is was a GREAT day!

Take care,

[jones7676]

Happy Belated Birthday - so sorry - I depend on others to track this...I hope it was wonderful!

[Jean]

Dear Andi,
I was away on vacation....and did not have internet.
(can you even imagine)?

I am sending you special belated hugs, love and so much more ....you are always with me!

Blessed with another year of joy and love and of course I wish you many more dearheart.

Jean

[Andrea Barnett Budin]

Thank you, dear Sisters! I joyfully accept all good wishes, belated or any way they come. Each is a blessing, like you. My day, BTW, was glorious. September 3rd has just always been full of sunshine and blue skies, when I lived in N.Y. and now in Fla. Though down here there is often a hurricane threatening (from June through November).

A friend, who I recently came upon 3x, after rooming w/her in college 45 yrs ago!!, took me to lunch (at Neiman Marcus' Mariposa). Very special. I always loved Lynn's sweet nature and thoughtful friendship. We were great buddies back in the day, then she moved to Fla, got married, drifted, and we lost touch. Then -- we found one another again!!!

When I returned from a trip to the Ladies Room, the waitress brought out a chocolate cake w/a candle in it. They softly sang to me. Fun!

Then I did some shopping!

I wore jeans. My first that I could find to fit in over a decade. I felt ecstatic, recapturing my youth, beginning my new adventure once again -- in unchartered waters. Admittedly a bit scared, but so very gleeful and grateful for all I have.

Paul took me for an excellent dinner (at a special occasion restaurant). I received over a dozen cards and so many calls -- from my daughters and grandkids, from friends, sisters and bro in law, nieces.

And to add to that I got so many lovely posts from y'all, thanks to my sweet friend Pinkie's thoughtfulness. I CAN FEEL THE LOVE. And I thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

There I go, rambling on. Again... http://cdn-cf.aol.com/se/smi/2b00001c91/06

You know I wish you all Life's best! I wish you all you dream of -- AND MORE!!

Hugs,
Andi http://cdn-cf.aol.com/se/clip_art/gstres/anmls/animals-butterfly

[hutchibk]

happy happy Andi-day!