A 28th (wink) B-day

First thanks for the birthday wishes everyone! Once you hit 28 (wink, 29) and the big fat 30 is looming birthday’s lose their excitement.

As a kid “THE BIRTHDAY LIST was miles long….. There was lots of cake, friends and family coming to the house to celebrate your day, but best of all it was the one day I didn’t have to do my chores around the house. All the birthday girl had to do was start checking things off the birthday list and pick what 3 kind of cakes she wanted. (Yes people 3 cakes, and it is still that way today at my kiddo’s parties). I would anticipate the new bike, the new “NIKE” sweatshirt, and the tennis shoes I had been slobbering over FOREVER! Anyways, you get the pic.

Back to yesterday…….

A couple days before, Ben asked what I wanted, and I admit the list took a while to come up with. After mulling it over I told him……. If we were millionaires, a laptop computer, but knowing this was not possible, I wanted a night at home, in a pair of sweatpants with my hubby watching a movie. This way I am not freezing my now prego arse off in a restaurant or movie theatre. As far as presents were concerned, I suggested more of the “willow tree” collection, an instrumental spa cd, (I know cheesy, but at the end of a hectic day it’s just what I want), or a massage from him. Yep, I thought to myself, that is the perfect birthday. So all day yesterday, I was pressing curtains, doing 6 piles of laundry, ironing over 23 pieces of clothes (SERIOUSLY it took me from 1:30 in the afternoon until 5:00 to do it all) and cleaning so I could actually sit down and enjoy the evening without thinking of all the things I should be doing. I even left BUG BUG up from her nap so that she would be exhausted and crash out promptly at 7 p.m. Yes I am going to have everyone in bed BY 7:00 and ENJOY my movie.

Jumping ahead, it is now, 7 o’clock at night and the kids are just going in the bathtub, I still have the mounds of clothes I folded to put away in the drawers, and before I know it is 8:15 and I am so exhausted I just want everyone in bed. Hugs and kisses to everyone and up they go. Ahhhh…. All that hard work and now I can enjoy my day. Or so I thought.

Ben had called be earlier in the day from the movie store with a couple of titles that he thought I would like and I told him to get “The Wedding Date” . You know a romantic comedy that was going to be sappy, happy, and leaving me at the end of a very hectic day sighing in happiness. YEAH RIGHT! This was the most horrible, no good, poor acting, no romance just sex, (for 6000 dollars), and lots of nipples movie I had ever seen! Come on people… under silk WEAR A BRA!!!!!!! So needless to say my day didn’t end as I had foreseen it happening. The only thing that salvaged the day was my hubby bringing me Chinese for supper… (Which he thought of and I LOVE) and my massage from my hubbster. From now on I am just going to tell Ben to listen to my daughter. When he asked her what to get me it was along the lines of diamond rings and necklaces. Something beautiful.

So what am I to learn in all this? On your birthday don’t clean your whole stinkin’ house, and go for the diamond instead of a movie!

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