Birthday

This weekend we're celebrating Kenneth's 5th birthday!
His birthday is also Frank's mom's birthday. We will be remembering her that day. It saddens me that Kenneth never met her.

I have always thought of birthdays as important and worth celebrating. That may seem obvious to many people, but really I've met lots of people who don't do much for their birthdays. For as long as I can remember, I've spent half the year looking forward to my next birthday and often knew what I wanted to do for my birthday months before. I guess I love parties!

Birthdays mean more than cake, presents and candles. They are a celebration of your existence. The day you were born was the single most important day of your life!

My kids' birthdays now greatly overshadow mine, which is the way it should be. The anniversary of their birth is a good reason to spend the day focussed on them. I've taken the idea from Kenneth's nursery school calling it his Special Day. He's going to do the things he likes to do: get a haircut, go to gymnastics, and play with friends. I guess the trip to the ski hill is out since the snow is being washed away.

I love smothering my kids with love on their birthdays. I have fond memories of waking Morgan up on his birthday to read him a new book. I was as excited as Christmas Day!

These days there is a lot more going on then when Morgan was little, but I do my best to make my kids feel special on their birthday.

hmmm... it's less than 6 months til my birthday, I guess I'd better start planning. Will the disco ball come out this year? Maybe I'll save that for my 40th.... a few more years to go. I'd love to go horseback riding at Rockwood Park. Maybe one year that dream will become a reality.

Happy Birthday, Kenneth! mommy loves you