Happy Birthday to me….

I thought I would give myself a nice gift of 15 minutes blogging and I sent Tim up to give Anna Mae the last bath of the evening. You should also know that I just took nighttime cold medicine so if I stop making sense it’s because I have totally fallen asleep at the key board.

So it was a great birthday as far as birthdays since I turned 30 go. I heard from many of my favorite people today – some knowing that it was my birthday and others just because.  Like my favorite birthdays of my twenties I talked my Mom into taking me shopping – Yea! The kids managed to get through a whole day without giving me any reason to yell and Tim brought me soup from my new favorite soup place. Don’t laugh – there have been some pretty un-eventful birthday in the last seven years. This was really great.

 

The only down side is that I am still fighting a cold that gets worse every evening, so I cancelled the sitter and asked if we could put off going out for dinner until the weekend. I though we were just going for Mexican at Jose’s, but Tim said he actually had to cancel a reservation – guess I should have stuck with the original plan – but I’ll re-schedule on a non-school night….

 

So enough about that – I have a few gems to share from my day…

 

First, on the car ride to school today Cole asked how old I am now. I asked him how old he is and when he said seven, I said to just add thirty. There was a long pause – which I broke by asking if that seemed old. Both Anna and Cole quickly said No that I was definitely not old – especially compared to Aunt Jenny. Gotta love that – I chose not to say anything to correct them…

 

This one happened the other night as well… have you ever heard me blow my nose? It’s so embarrassing – but my nose just sounds like either a goose flying overhead or the horn on a fire truck – go ahead and laugh – I’m used to it… Anyway – I have been fighting this cold and Grace got a hold of my box of tissues tonight – AGAIN!—She holds it up to her nose and blows a wild and loud raspberry into it and then she laughs and laughs… So officially even the 1 year old is making fun of me – I have broad shoulders J

 

Cole found a fortune cookie tonight and read it to me…”You are soon going to change your present line of work.” – Good thing I ate it he said. “Why?” I asked. “Because you and Dad need to keep doing what you’re doing – anyway it’s true for me.” “What do you mean?” I asked. “The teacher says it’s almost second semester and it’s time to start working on the hard stuff.”

 

Finally, Cole was helping me get Grace ready for bed and I said to him, “Cole, Grandma says my kids don’t smile enough. Why do you think she thinks that?” “Well” Cole does not miss a beat, “I think we all can smile, it’s just that Grandma doesn’t tell enough jokes.”

All right, that’s it for tonight – thanks for coming and don’t forget to tip your waitresses on your way out…