Celebrate

It’s almost birthday time in our house! So excited that my baby girls is almost 6! I cannot believe it - six years old!


I’ve been busy party planning. We’re going back to the same gymnastics center we went to last year. I’m taking that as a sign that she had a good time last year. The girl is like me – when she knows she likes something she sticks with it.

I have a few little things to take care of and then we’ll be set and ready to go. It’s hard to really plan when no one RSVPs – I don’t really know how many we’ll end up with. So I planned big and will most likely be stuck with some leftovers. No worries, we’ll just be using Dora the Explorer plates for a few weeks after.

I was a little behind on her birthday poem but I got it done last night. I kinda struggled this year. It just doesn’t seem to flow that well. But at this point, I’m just happy that I’ve got it written. So here’s a bad Mommy confession: I didn’t write one for M2’s birthday last year. I’ve written one every year for M’s birthday, so of course, I had to do the same for M2. But last year…well, I don’t know what happened. I just didn’t get it done. And then I told myself I would do it right after. And I didn’t.

So I’m going to cheat. This year I’m going to do two. It isn’t the same but at least she’ll have it for her baby book. So when they are trying to decide who I loved more by looking through their baby books and measuring my love by the amount of details I recorded– they will see that it truly is even. And that I wasn’t very good about recording anything for either one of them.

So each year on their birthday we have a special day and do something fun. This year I asked M what she wanted to do and she told me she wanted to help people that didn’t have anything. And then said that maybe we could take them some of her toys because she thought that might make them happy. I was so proud and blown away. That kid amazes me.

I was a little concerned that a homeless shelter might be scary for her and the community outreach places I called had a minimum age requirement of 10. So for our birthday community service project she’s making cards and we’re going to go visit a few nursing homes. I think that’s a good place to start – I think the residents will like it and she’ll have a blast. I’m pretty excited about it.

And I’ve decided we’ll do that each year – a little project on our special day. What better way to celebrate your life than to help enrich someone else’s? It’s amazing what my kids teach me…