I can hardly believe March has drawn to a close… which means that I have survived birthday month!  This week’s flashback looks at Thumper’s past birthday cakes. Age 1: Age 2: Age 3: Age 4: I wonder if he will want a Star Wars themed cake again next year….

Party time!  We celebrated Rerun’s birthday (10 days later) and Thumper’s birthday (3 days early) in one big birthday party! The spread was out… … and the cakes were ready.  I decided to give Thumper another Star Wars birthday, and finally used some of the specialty decorating kit from Williams-Sonoma that I had been saving. […]

When you turn seven, you get to ask Mom for a special breakfast.  In this case, gingerbread scones.  And Mom will put a candle in the scone and sing. Then you get to choose what you want for dinner – and you decide to go to Red Robin.  And you get to open a couple […]

Nine girls over.  Three pizzas.  One movie. Yup, Ane was having her friends over to celebrate her birthday! Lina was spending the night, but the rest were over to eat pizza and ice cream sundaes, and supposedly watch Star Wars.  As in, the original 1977 Star Wars.  So many of Ane’s friends are first generation […]