Friday was my birthday. It's a hard time a year to have a birthday if you revolve around school. We started class this week and we were tired and stressed from trying to get used to a new schedule. My boss made me a chocolate cake and I ate it with my colleagues. Brian and Hannah brought me flowers at work. Brian and Hannah also made me a mint ice cream brownie. I was able to talk to my sister and my friend in Utah on the phone. While I was talking, Brian and Hannah went to sleep and didn't wake up until about 8 p.m. That was too late to go to dinner so we finished the pot roast I made earlier in the week, ate the brownie and called it good. Brian ordered me several pairs of shoes online and let me pick the ones I wanted to keep. The best was a pair of black sandals. I wore out my old ones this summer. I had them for three years, so they had a good life.
On Saturday, we returned the rejected shoes and then went to a birthday party for a 2-year old in Hannah's nursery class. The husband is in graduate school too and the family members are our good friends. It was a low-key birthday, but that was the plan in a year when we did so much traveling.
Hannah felt a lot of ownership over my brownie. We didn't have candles, so we used an LED light. It was much less of a hassle. You can also see my flowers in the background. Brian bought a set that was on clearance because two stems were broken (I always tell him if he is going to buy flowers, that he should not spend much money). Hannah took the broken flowers off at home. When I was sitting at the kitchen table, she pulled them out of a drawer and said "mommy, look at what I got for you." It was such a great mommy moment. I gave her so many kisses for her sincere gift.
Hannah is eating cake at the little boy's party here. They gave her a huge piece and lots of chocolate ice cream. We don't do dessert at our house often, except for cookies that are on sale and popsicles in the summer, so she was in heaven having dessert two days in a row.
Brian accidentally set the camera to the distance setting so all the pictures at the party were blurry. But you can make out Hannah and I enjoying our party cake well enough.
On Saturday, we returned the rejected shoes and then went to a birthday party for a 2-year old in Hannah's nursery class. The husband is in graduate school too and the family members are our good friends. It was a low-key birthday, but that was the plan in a year when we did so much traveling.
Hannah felt a lot of ownership over my brownie. We didn't have candles, so we used an LED light. It was much less of a hassle. You can also see my flowers in the background. Brian bought a set that was on clearance because two stems were broken (I always tell him if he is going to buy flowers, that he should not spend much money). Hannah took the broken flowers off at home. When I was sitting at the kitchen table, she pulled them out of a drawer and said "mommy, look at what I got for you." It was such a great mommy moment. I gave her so many kisses for her sincere gift.
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