I turn 50 today (see also turning 48, 47, 45, 43, 42, 41, 40, 39, 38, and 36; before age 36 apparently I was young enough not to comment).
The day started with Oliver secretly passing a note to his vice-principal at school when I dropped him off asking her to make an announcement about my birthday, which she kindly did:
Photo by Paul Kalupnieks, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic license.