40th Our son was born on the day of. I'd spent the previous 2 days, nights waiting with the Mrs on the maternity ward. I slept on a smelly old birthing mat on the floor, had been advised by the hospital to bring in our own portable fan if we had one, hot summer that year in London. Awful unnecessarily traumatic birth, baby not breathing on eventual delivery, it was my spot, first alert that got the crash team in.
Later in the day I was kicked out by one of the nurses, told to go have a drink with mates and get a shower!, Wife was in the ICU having a couple of pints of claret replaced.
Stopped working in one sense, began in another.
50th Over with the Yanks, staying in a beach house on the Outer Banks NC, covid adjacent period still, so ordered in a seafood boil. MiL gave me a bottle of Chateauneuf. Bil bought gummie bears and a vape pen. Good time.
60th Who knows, a way to go yet, enjoy one day at a time.
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