Posted in Birthdays, Holidays & Celebrations, Uncategorized, tagged frosting moustache, Got Milk, milk moustache, soup moustache on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
In this post I described the birthday cake that was inflicted upon me this past week. As I was writing that, I remembered the only other birthday on which I was truly and totally grossed out.
It was about eleven years ago. We were in the dining room of Mom and Virgil’s old place near Harrison. [...]
Posted in Birthdays, Holidays & Celebrations, The Hooligan Chronicles, Uncategorized, tagged birthday cake, Darth Vader birthday cake, sickening frosting colors, Star Wars, Star Wars birthday cake on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
I had a very nice birthday today. I arrived at work to find a signed card from my editorial teammates and a Busken donut, a great way to start the day. The drive to work was gorgeous; the rain had let up but the wetness gave everything a watercolor effect in the soft morning light [...]
Posted in Birthdays, Holidays & Celebrations, Looking Back, tagged 1960s birthday parties, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Barbie, birthday parties, girls' birthday parties on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I had only two birthday parties that were open to kids outside of the family when I was a child. This was my own choice; I wasn’t entirely comfortable being the center of attention, and I was even less comfortable playing hostess.
One of those parties, though, was the year I turned eight. I don’t know [...]
Posted in Birthdays, Holidays & Celebrations, Looking Back, tagged 1950s party favors; kids' birthday parties; vintage par on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
I asked my mother if she remembered when Grandma Martha first bought the nursery rhyme party hats and plastic nut cups we used for every kid’s birthday for years when I was little. Mom wasn’t sure; we both knew the tradition had started by 1960, when my youngest brother was born. We both remembered how [...]
Posted in Birthdays, Holidays & Celebrations, Just Rattling On, tagged 40th birthday celebration, birthday surprises, birthday themes, Gettysburg, mystery trip, theme parties on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »
For several years back in the 1990s, Diamondqueen insisted that our birthday celebrations have “themes.” Fortunately this only applied to me, Mom, and Diamondqueen, not the entire family. We had some creative themes, though. And those celebrations took a lot of work and planning.
I celebrated some really interesting themed birthdays during those years. There was [...]
Posted in Birthdays, Holidays & Celebrations, Looking Back, tagged 1950s backyard toys, birthday memories, birthdays in the 1950s, Disney's Snow White, Ice Capades, merry-go-round cake decorating kit on April 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Since this is my birthday week, the gift I’m giving myself is reminiscing here about birthdays past, now through next Sunday.
My earliest birthday memory is my mother giving me a gift to open the morning of the big day. I don’t know how old I was, but I have a lot of clear memories from [...]
Posted in Birthdays, Holidays & Celebrations, Looking Back, Poetry, Uncategorized, tagged birthday celebrations, celebrating simple joys, celebrating the little things, National Poetry Month, National Secretary's Day on April 12, 2008 | No Comments »
As I said in this post, April is my birthday month. April often is also Easter month, so there are two big celebrations right there.
At various times over the years, other celebrations have added layers to the party atmosphere of April for me. And, frankly, sometimes keeping up with all the parties and commemorations made [...]
Posted in Birthdays, Easter, Holidays & Celebrations, Just Rattling On, Needlework, The Hooligan Chronicles, embroidery, tagged birthday cake, Dewey's Pizza, flooded basement, heavy rain, overworked, post-operative recovery, signs of spring on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Geez, what a month March has been! First, I’m going to be whiney about how many hours I’ve been putting in at work. And the sorry part of it is, I felt as if I wasn’t seeing any results all those nights I stayed until 7 o’clock or later, or those weekends I brought work [...]
