You know you’re old when you really really really want a screen door for your birthday.
I’m celebrating today with a 9:30 a.m. trip to the OB for a little fetal monitoring, and then a frantic session of writing at the cafe in the hopes of finally meeting my deadlines.
Later this afternoon I’ll pick up the cake I ordered for myself, of which I will eat just a teeny tiny bit, in mild defiance of my gestational diabetes.
I can count on one hand the number of birthdays I’ve spent without my mom. It feels strange to be here just with my MIL, and without my husband, who has sung to me over glowing candles for the past 11 years.
But I do have my Poo, my sweet, sweet Poo. This morning she came to visit me in bed at 7 a.m., climbing under the covers and sighing.
“Mommy,” she said.
That one word: a mantra, a prayer, and entreaty all wrapped up into one.
This isn’t where I thought I’d be when I looked down the long tunnel from my 20s to my 30s.
But I’m finding that no matter where I travel, I am always home.
Here’s to whatever 37 brings.
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Happy Birthday! Sorry it’s not what you expected, but hope it’s wonderful anyway!
Happy Birthday Mrs. C!
happy, happy birthday to you – TO YOU !!
hope you have a wonderful day and your small bit of cake helps take a small bit of those worries away!
Happy Birthday! I’ve never left a comment before, but I read your blog almost every day! You are funny and a great writer and I wish I had the guts to put myself out there like you do! I just had to comment today because we share a birthday! And I can also commiserate with you about being pregnant…though this is my first and I’ve still got 17 weeks to go!
Hope your birthday turns out better than you thought and have that slice of cake guilt free! I’ll be thinking of you when I have my slice tonight, too!
Happy Birthday day!! Eat cake, enjoy the day and all that is in it. This is your last birthday as a mother of one, cherish it!! (not that a birthday of a mother of 2 is bad) Have a wonderful day!
Happy Birthday, girl! Enjoy your cake and know that I’m thinking of you!
Happy Birthday. Welcome to the 37 club!
Diabetics can certainly have cake on their birthday. You just need to give an extra injection for it.
Happy Birthday. Eat that bite, hug Poo and know that 37 isn’t really all that bad.
happiest, sister. the happiest. i am certain this will be your most amazing year yet. i love you.
Happy birthday! And good for you for having a taste of cake. You totally deserve it!
37 has been good to me, so far. May it be good to you as well.
Happy, happy birthday.
Happy Birthday! Hope it is a good one, tell me what 37 is like, I’m going there in January. And yes, mommy is the best word in the world…as long as it isn’t said in that “you aren’t doing what I want, I’m really tired, I’m hungry and I’m on the verge of a meltdown” way my boys say it from time to time.
Happy Birthday! Have fun with Poo and MIL, eat cake, and of course, be merry!
Happy Birthday! Try and enjoy your birthday as much as possible. Yeah, where we’d thought we’d be and where you are tend to be very different.
Too bad, huh?
Happy Birthday! Hope you have a great day…
Happy Birthday. And yes- I ask for things like appliances and landscaping for my birthday. Hope today is a good one.
Steph
Happy Birthday! For Christmas the first year I was married, Al got me a dishwasher. I was the happiest person in all of Illinois that day! I took pictures of it like crazy. And now, it is still at our house and I wish we could take it with us wherever we go. I miss my awesome dishwasher.
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday! I hope that you enjoy your cake bite. At least you can eat cake vicariously through The Poo!
Happy birthday!!!! Will spare you my “singing” – pure torture!
Hope you manage to eek every last bit of enjoyment out of it in the circumstances.
Happy Birthday. Enjoy your day. You deserve a day of happiness and a bite of cake.
Happy birthday to you. My mom gave me my favorite birthday quote when I turned 35, and I kept it in mind last year, and I’ll remember it again when I turn 37 in a few short months: “If you’re old before your time, you’re old for a really long time.” I’ll keep saying it even when I’m really old. Like, you know, 40.
Happy Day Mrs. C! I have loved 37, am heading into 38 in September. It will be an exciting year for you and your family, with lots to look forward to.
Happy Birthday to You!! My Tot shares the day with you – the big 4!
Enjoy your cake and your company, put your feet up and rest, relax and look forward to an amazing year!
Happy birthday to you!
Cake makes so many things better.
Happy birthday! Growing older may be hard but the knowledge that you have all you really need is liberating. I am confident that 37 will be an amazing year for you and your family!
Happy Birthday! I’ll catch you on chat later
Well happy happy!!
Happy Birthday
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Happy Birthday sweet Mrs.C. Hope that cake tastes just as good as you imagine it will be.
Happy birthday!!
may it all be filled with love.
Happy Birthday to you! I hope you have a wonderful day today and enjoy your small taste of cake cause it’s your birthday and I say you can!
Happiest of birthdays to you!
I asked for a vacuum cleaner one year for my birthday and this year I got another sewing machine (a serger). Both made me extremely happy. Pretty pathetic, no?
happy, happy bday friend!
i promise to eat the rest of your cake for you if you send it to me?
Happy Birthday ~ hope you had a great day ~ and that your little piece of cake was just divine!!! XXX
Happy Birthday!!
Happy Birthday!!!!
Happy birthday!! Hope you enjoyed your morsel of much deserved cake.
Happy Birthday! I can’t believe I forgot that you and my daughter share a birthday.
Happy Birthday and enjoy your sneak of cake!
Happy Happy Birthday Amy! And enjoy that sliver of cake, you certainly deserve it!
Happy Birthday!
And wanting a screen door doesn’t make you old, it makes you practical. A few years, when I was 23 or 24, I asked my MIL for some nice pans for my birthday. I remember once when I was a kid, probably 9 or 10, my dad got my mom a ceiling fan for her birthday. She was really angry about it (so not like my mom, so I obviously don’t know the whole story) and I remember thinking “if you need a ceiling fan, why is that a bad gift”?
Apparently, that makes me a really hard person to buy for.
Hope you had a wonderful day, and the you enjoy that itty, bitty piece of cake
Happy Birthday pretty girl. So sorry these last few weeks have been so hard. I wish I could do something to make things easier.
happy happy (late) birthday…and that the taste of cake was satisfying and wonderful.
Happiest of birthdays (late!) to you, my friend. I hope that teensy slice of cake satisfied your sweet tooth for a little while.
Happy birthday! I wish you all the happiness in the world.
Happy Birthday- I hope it was happier than you could have ever expected.
Happy belated birthday! Sorry I missed it yesterday. Hope the couple of bites of cake were delish.