Happy un-birthday to me
Yesterday was my 27th birthday. I joked continually that it should be known as my "unbirthday." Because we're closing on the house today, we've been so busy and so broke that I knew I wasn't going to get any presents right now. Dada is going to try to finagle me a new digital camera in May. My parents are buying me (and Dada, as a very early birthday present for him) a dishwasher for the new house, which comes without one. Yes, these things are necessary and really great, but they don't really feel like birthday presents per se. And then I also knew there would be no hoopla surrounding my birthday. With two super-little munchkins, I figured it would be impossible for Dada and I to get out alone for a celebration. And again with the brokeness and busy-ness, I baked my own birthday cake. Not that twenty-seven is a particularly momentous age, but I like my birthday served with a little bit of shazaam, okay?
It did turn out better than I thought. The boys and I went to playgroup in the morning and I told select moms that it was my birthday -- my friend Amy commented on how impressed she was with my "intelligence and efficiency" that I was able to cook two babies and a Ph.D. by the time I was 27. My in-laws (hereafter referred to as Mamaw and Dadaw) arrived at dinner time and took our whole clan out to the brand-new Panera Bread downtown for a tasty meal. Isaac, who knows all about "Bir-day Cake!!!" now, delighted in helping me with mine:
(here everybody's clapping after a rousing rendition of "Happy Birthday to Claire")
(here's Isaac trying to catch the smoke from the candle)
Dada actually did get me a small, thoughtful, and unexpected gift -- a personalized heart-shaped coffee mug extolling me as the best mom in the world, with love from "Mike, Ike, and Jake". And then for the birthday coup de grace, Mamaw and Dadaw sat for the boys for one hour while Dada and I went for a DRINK. That's right, folks...I had an alcoholic beverage for my birthday. An $11 glass of single-malt that was so extremely tasty. It was my first alcoholic beverage since early last summer, and probably my last for several months, at least until the Jakester and I get a nursing routine down. But I'm allowed to cheat this one time because hey! It's my birthday!
It did turn out better than I thought. The boys and I went to playgroup in the morning and I told select moms that it was my birthday -- my friend Amy commented on how impressed she was with my "intelligence and efficiency" that I was able to cook two babies and a Ph.D. by the time I was 27. My in-laws (hereafter referred to as Mamaw and Dadaw) arrived at dinner time and took our whole clan out to the brand-new Panera Bread downtown for a tasty meal. Isaac, who knows all about "Bir-day Cake!!!" now, delighted in helping me with mine:
(here everybody's clapping after a rousing rendition of "Happy Birthday to Claire")
(here's Isaac trying to catch the smoke from the candle)
Dada actually did get me a small, thoughtful, and unexpected gift -- a personalized heart-shaped coffee mug extolling me as the best mom in the world, with love from "Mike, Ike, and Jake". And then for the birthday coup de grace, Mamaw and Dadaw sat for the boys for one hour while Dada and I went for a DRINK. That's right, folks...I had an alcoholic beverage for my birthday. An $11 glass of single-malt that was so extremely tasty. It was my first alcoholic beverage since early last summer, and probably my last for several months, at least until the Jakester and I get a nursing routine down. But I'm allowed to cheat this one time because hey! It's my birthday!
posted by Claire at 11:36 AM
3 Comments:
Happy Birthday Claire!!! i too am very impressed with all you have accomplished at such an early age.
Enjoy birthday week...cause really they needs to be celebrated the whole week!
Happy Birthday!!! Sorry you had to make your own cake! But it sounds like you made the best of your day! Can't wait to see pics of the new digs!
Happy Birthday Claire! I'm so sorry we missed it. We have finally returned from dissertation land (Ohio) -we'll have to get together later this week and belatedly celebrate. (And yay for the single malt- Art is very impressed, he's never been able to get his wife to like the stuff).
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