Happy Birthday to Me!
OK, so I guess I am getting off to a slow start this year, but I promise, I promise I will do better next week! Plus, I have a great excuse…yesterday was my 31st birthday!
Before I get into the details of the day, let me just reflect on how I feel about 31. I’m actually pretty excited about officially being in my 30s. I remember being in my teens and in college trying to think about (gasp!) The Thirty-Year-Old Tonjia and I couldn’t even grasp the concept, it was just too foreign to even conceive that I wouldn’t be a young vibrant thing one day, but you know, I actually feel just as youthful as I did back then, just 2 kids and lots of life experiences wiser and 2 kids and lots of dining experiences heavier, but dare I say, I think I am definitely like wine…I am so getting better as I age…owwwww! I am loving my 31 year old swagger right now, and I have plenty of child-carrying hips to put into that swagger so I guess I should just “work it, diva” 
So, back to the day. On Wednesday night, I decided that I was going to “chillax” my birthday right on in and set the tone for the next day. I put the kids to sleep, cleaned up the kitchen, finished up all of my work-related checklist stuff, took a long hot shower, made me a cup of hot chocolate, and sat down to surf the Internet, just because I felt like it. No work, no bill-paying, nothing but “I just feel like being on the Internet and so I am.” I was feeling all warm and cozy inside…ahhhh, time to go to sleep and wake up refreshed and being the Birthday Princess Mommy tomorrow. ZZZZZZZZ…
“Mommy, um, hello Mommy, um can I have some apple juice?”
Ignore.
“Um, Moooommmmmy, Mommmmmmy, MOMMY! CAN I HAVE SOME AP-PLE JUICE?!”
Really ignore.
After what felt like an eternity of Benjamin asking me in very best preschool manners if he could have some apple juice and since the ignoring thing was not working, I decided I would get up and get this child some apple juice and start my perfect beautiful birthday off. I opened my eyes and looked at the clock and it was 4:30AM! WTH? “goooooooo aaaaaaaaa brrrrrrrrmp!” Great, Benjamin, thanks, hi Anna. Double WTH?! Happy Birthday to Me!
Two hours, two very awake and laughing kids who never went back to sleep, and a sunrise later, I decided to get up and start my Birthday. I couldn’t help but to laugh at how different birthdays are now than when I was a child. What ever happened to the whole sleeping-in, you are the center of the day, “whatever you want to do, honey” birthday? Then I looked over at the smiling and playing cuties laying on me singing along to Sesame Street and I realized that I had the best birthday present of all: playing with, hugging and kissing, laughing and tickling, and watching the sunrise with the most precious gifts I could I ever receive. This is perfect, what else could a Birthday Mommy ever want?
At 2:00, I was certainly walking into the spa for my Birthday appointment
Let’s hear from you: What was your last birthday like? Did your babes do anything special for you?