Happy Birthday
Happy birthday to me*! Of course, since this is the magic six five, AARP and Social Security and every person that can get at my vital statistics has been wishing me well and wanting my business since early summer.
We did have a lovely family Thanksgiving dinner last weekend while DD#2 was here. Yes, I did all the cooking, since no one else in the family can cook worth a plug nickel. Although DD#1 did make a very fine German chocolate pie. So she’s exempted from that plug nickel list.
Every year I fix DH a chocolate Bavarian cream pie. That’s chocolate crumb crust filled with a vanilla custard enhanced with whipped egg whites and whipped cream. His mother used to make everyone a pie and him an extra one all to himself. So I continue the tradition.
I also remember DD#1’s birthday party that I slaved over when she was about 6. She’s a January baby, and I wanted something different. So we had a swimming party at the local Y. What I remember is being blessed out by another mother who had to search all over town to get her daughter a fancy new bathing suit. Mine just wore what they had from the summer. No one noticed the girl’s chi chi bathing suit. Oh, well. That was the last January swimming party.
And this summer we had a luncheon at a restaurant for MIL’s 93rd birthday. As much of her family came as possibly could get here. Never mind that three there couldn’t remember much after, oh, say 30 seconds.
A theme? Mostly eat. None of that alcoholic drinking stuff, though. These family get-togethers are Baptist based. Not much tea or coffee either. Most of us are getting more caffeine-intolerant.
So how do other CBs celebrate birthdays?
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