The Unbirthday Party...or...The Anti-Party Birthday

   Ok...first...necessity is the mother of invention.  Second, I will have to admit that No. 2 son's birthday just came out of nowhere and suprised me this year.  Over the years, I have become less and less of a planner and more and more a fan of the "fly by the seat of your pants" methodology.  Luckily, I function generally well under pressure.
      So, Monday, I realize that Carson's actual birthday is Tuesday. No weekend party planned, no sleepover, no cake ordered nor the materials to bake one...as a matter of fact, he has an orthodontist appointment scheduled that day.  If that doesn't spell F U N  then I don't know what does.  That's right up there with the year I put new toothbrushes and socks in the Christmas stockings. 
     Anyway...On Tuesday, between errands, I inform Carson that since this is his special day, he gets to pick anything or anyplace he wants for supper, and either bowling or a movie.  I took a courtesy spin thru the parking lot of the cheap theater, not to influence, just to see if there was anything he wanted to see there.  Cha-Ching...Yogi Bear is there!!!  It gets better, for supper, he wants to order Papa John's Pizza and have it delivered at home...$12.42...theater tickets...$15.00 for a family of six (one free baby of course)...Back at home, I happened to have all the ingredients for chocolate chip cookies...so I made some and one big one for the birthday boy...he loved it.   I may be done with birthday parties forever! This was too easy.

Moments...

Moments are fleeting...if they are good, we must burn them into our brains!  I think we do this automatically as human beings because I remember really fun things from waaaaayyy back there in my childhood.  I only hope my kids are doing the same.  That being said, I hope I remember that being 36 isn't so bad, when I'm say 56, and being 56 is a walk in the park compared to being 76 and any age you are after that is day after day of potential to have good memories until you are gone from this earth. 
Note to self: Don't screw it up for everyone, Kim!!!