Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts

Monday, September 27, 2010

We Like To (Dinner) Party

September 27th and 28th are busy days in my family.
Five people mark their birthdays on those days.
So we like to party.
My grandmother, my uncle, and my brother shared their birthdays 
at a dinner party at our new house.
Unfortunately, because we were hosting a soiree we couldn't make it to our nephew or cousin's birthday festivities. 
Usually we're hitting several parties in one day!
My uncle and aunt made ribs (that were insanely good) and Mark made The Pioneer Woman's Brown Sugar Bourbon Pork Skewers & Dirty Rice (yum!) 
The food was finger-lickin' good!
I made chocolate chocolate chip cake with homemade whipped cream frosting - at my brother's request.
Rio was not thrilled with anything on the menu except for the whipped cream, which my brother handed her by the spoonful. Nice.
Then we played Sedarahc otherwise known as reverse charades. The whole team has to act out a difficult word while one person tries to guess. The teammates cannot communicate with one another.
I believe they were trying to act out "Diaper Change" in this picture.
It was a riot.
I think everyone worked off all the food we consumed.
It was a lot of fun and lasted until midnight.
We like to party to celebrate.
But for all these people to be born at the same time
it is apparent that a lot of people in my family like to party 
around Christmas...
if you catch my drift. {wink, wink}

Monday, June 7, 2010

Born At The Right Time

I'm thirty-five.
I'm not really sure how I feel about this.
Someone once told me that your thirties are the best years and I agree.
You are finally finished with school, have some money in the bank, perhaps kids, probably a home...life is good.
But then part of me feels like I just stepped onto a slippery slope to 40. ugh.
Not that there's anything wrong with 40; after all, it's the new 30!
But I thought I'd have a bunch of kids by now.
I never thought it'd take such a large portion of my adult life
to have one.
In every other area of my life I'm settled. I'm happy.
I can check items off my list.
But that one section entitled "Gaggle of Kids" continues to haunt me.
Unless I win the lottery tomorrow.
We'll be able to pull off another adoption but after that?
Sometimes it's upsetting.
So I think that's my biggest hang-up with turning 35.
However,
I was definitely born at the right time.
I was destined to mother at least one beautiful child.