Number 7 turned eight years old on Saturday. She asked for: cake ice cream seaweed (the kind you eat) Nutri grain bars a Lego set a watch a scooter with nothing girly on it and a dog She got a cake (decorated by Number 4) and ice cream, seaweed and Nutri grain bars (she tried […]
birthdays
My Grandma
Today is my grandma’s birthday. I’ve been thinking about her a lot in the last twenty-four hours since the Skillet Throw and knowing it was her birthday the next day. My grandma was not perfect. She was kinda judgmental and a little bit of a racist in a super naive and ignorant way. But she […]
Fastest Fourteen Years Ever
Fourteen years and six months ago after polishing off a bottle of wine and a pack of cigarettes by myself, I took a pregnancy test. I have no idea what prompted me to do this or why I even had a pregnancy test at home in the first place. It was positive. I was drunk […]
A Simple 7th Birthday Celebration
It was Number 7’s birthday on Friday. She turned seven years old. Number 7 has the latest birthday of all the kids, so she is always waiting and waiting and waiting AND WAITING for her big day to come. Everyone who knows me knows I have an issue with over-the-top birthday celebrations for kids for […]
A (12th and 49th) Birthday Adventure
On Number 4’s 7th birthday we started a birthday tradition. Instead of getting a bunch of stuff, Number 4 and I had a birthday experience. We had very little money at the time, and I contacted a local salon and they offered to give us complimentary manicures and pedicures and Number 4 got her hair […]
Are You One? Are You Two? Are You Three?…
I will often greet my kids with a “How is my favorite third grader today?” Or a “How is my favorite eight and under swimmer?” On the kids’ birthdays, when I wake them up in the morning or when they come downstairs I say, “How is my favorite [however many]-year-old?” Of course they love that […]