Nowadays, it’s the little things that matter most to Janet Enbody.

“Well, when I open up my eyes and see the sunshine I think it’s wonderful — another day,” she smiles as she sits on a motorized scooter in her warm and cozy apartment at Village Green, surrounded by photos of family members and a framed Serenity Prayer art piece on her bookshelf. She points to a folded crocheted purple blanket that her friend gave her for her birthday.

Enbody will turn 100 on April 24. Her family, many of whom are coming from England, plan to throw her a big birthday shindig at Village Green on April 25.

“I am very excited,” she said. “All the people here [in her building] are invited, so it’s going to be a big day. 1915 was when I was born. Now it’s 2015,” she laughed. “Isn’t that something? I never dreamed I’d live this long.”

Born on April 24, 1915, Enbody grew up in Olympia and graduated from high school in 1933.

“That was before the World War II years. Course then, there was no money — it was the same as it is now,” she said. “People didn’t have money to go to college.”

Enbody was fortunate enough to complete a typing program at a business school, and did secretarial work for the Secretary of State at the state Capitol in Olympia. It was there she stumbled into her former classmate’s brother, who told Enbody her friend was in the Army and would be coming home for a month before heading back to Germany.

Her friend came to see her in Olympia and they eventually got married.

“Just missed one year of being married 50 years,” Enbody recalled of her husband Clarence, who passed away years ago. “He had a bad heart.”

She said her husband adopted her daughter that she had from her first marriage and they moved to Germany.  The couple eventually retired and settled down in Oceanside, California for 30 years.

“I had a very interesting life — couldn’t have asked for anything better,” Enbody said, noting all of places she traveled to with her husband.

They visited so many places that she made a list so she wouldn’t forget, as her memory is fading recently, she said.

They went to places like Switzerland, France, Italy, South Korea, Singapore and Rome — where they met the Pope one Easter Sunday.

A crowd of Army soldiers and their families gathered as the Pope passed.

“Anyway, he touched my husband’s head,” she laughed. “He felt like he had really been blessed.”

Enbody shakes her head and pauses, making her way back from recalling memories.

“I don’t know what’s going to happen to the world,” she said. “Back in the day, we never locked our door. You know, people were sane — they knew what they were doing, not running around and shooting people. It’s really terrible now, the world is. I’m just wondering what another 100 years will be like when a new generation takes over.”

Nevertheless, she said she is happy at Village Green, where she’s lived since 2001.

She moved to Federal Way to be closer to her family, including two grandsons and three great granddaughters.

“My husband was a wonderful person. But now, well, I have my Stephen,” she said of her nephew, who takes care of her. “He’s very wonderful.”

She said she keeps in touch with her family via Skype, which her nephew helps arrange when he visits.

“There’s always new things arriving — I wonder what they’ll think of next,” she said of Skype.

Enbody said when she first moved to Village Green, she was independent and drove herself places.

But after she fell and broke her leg in two places and dislocated her shoulder, she doesn’t get out as much as she uses a scooter to get around. She does make it a point to eat dinner every day in the dining room.

Enbody said she has done most of the things she’s always wanted to do in her lifetime.

But she does have two wishes.

“I’m wondering if there’s anybody left in my high school class but I have no way of knowing whether my friends have passed on. There must be one or two. It’d be nice to know,” she said.

And her biggest wish: “I want to be here for my 100th birthday.”