Today is Shannon’s 3xth birthday. Happy birthday, babe! I hope her day was as good as she looked.
True to the personality that’s developed over the previous three-plus decades, Shannon staged her own brunch party, making a frittata, scones, and muffins and doing all the considerable setup. The only thing I had to do was run to the store for a few miscellaneous items, including the all-important chocolate cake, which the girls painstakingly chose from the fridge at Cub.
My “presents” to the birthday girl were a dress she already bought at Target and taking care of the girls while she went out with friends to a movie yesterday. I don’t wear that “Big $pender” tshirt around for nothing.
Come to think of it, I also supervised the girls’ fabrication of birthday cards, a task which they dispatched with great excitement and aplomb yesterday evening. This morning, after Shannon opened the cards from our brunch guests, I was struck by the girls’ flawless sense of style: clearly, pink and brown are the fashionable card colors this season.
Here’s the outside of the card Julia made:
and here’s the inside, including a drawing of a birthday party (orange table, blue frosted cake, balloons) and some taped-down confetti:
Here’s how Vivi decorated her card. Click here for explanatory notes.
I dunno about you, but I’ll say my birthday was a success if it’s half a heartfelt as this one.
Shannon here, disguised as “admin.” (Dang WordPress bug!) It’s always nice when a re-scheduled no-occasion brunch, postponed due to January illness, ends up landing on one’s birthday and thus turns into one’s party. Also when one of your best friends has a birthday the same weekend, so the brunch can be a joint birthday celebration for two. Fun! And I don’t feel a day older than 37. Oh wait–maybe one day older.