My Birthday

It's a three day dessert fest, although that's not quite what happened this year. I did make glazed popcorn on my Fake Birthday, but we didn't eat it until after our nightly routine (instead of right after dinner because I was late in making it). Wednesday was the Pack Meeting and Pinewood Derby and I didn't get around to making a dessert (or dinner so we ate cold cereal before we left). Thursday was my Real Birthday. The kids did their computer work in the morning and we watched a movie after lunch. It was a relaxing day.

This is the first year that my husband has given me a present each day. I think it had more to do with his excitement and inability to keep a secret - which I'm fine with. On my Fake Birthday (3/27), he gave me a new blue toner carteridge for our laser printer so that it would stop putting blue streaks on everything. Hooray! Of course, when he installed it, he realized we needed new pink and yellow as well. For my Almost Birthday (3/28) he gave me blu-ray discs so I can use my blu-ray burner to copy all our HD homevideos from the island so we can watch them. I'm so excited! For my Real Birthday (3/29) he gave me the Seafarers expansion to the Settlers of Catan game that we love to play. Our friends, the Smiths, came over to play and enjoy my yummy birthday dessert. We played once with all the kids, then sent them to bed and played againg with just the adults. It as really fun and not nearly as complicated once we figured it all out. I'm ready to play it again though, so maybe I can hurry the kids through their stuff, have class, lunch, stack some wood and prepare for dinner and then play the game with them. So that was my birthday in a really large nut shell.