(Before you read this, go read the previous post so you know what I’m doing if you notice me digging in your archives.)

I have 14 days to finish planning Rachel’s birthday party. It will be at park with a female clown-magician. She’s decided on a unicorn theme. I am really grateful we steered her away from Barbie. That was not going to happen. Not a big Barbie fan.

The bigger issue for me now is her scrapbook. I promised her I would finish her scrapbook by her birthday. I started it three years ago and am really ready for it to be done. I’ve got 12 days to complete the thing. The big push. After this, I’ll do Hannah’s scrapbook and then I’m done with scrapbooks. Ofoto has a great album that you can create. I’ll do that every year. And of course, there’s the blog. I can take selected posts from this and make a little book for each them to read when they are older.

When I was growing up we always had a special family breakfast on birthday mornings. The birthday girl wasn’t allowed to leave her bedroom until the table was set and all the presents wrapped. Then the birthday girl would get to use the “gold” silverware at breakfast. Very exciting. We ate on our special plates and drank from white wine goblets and opened presents from the family. Everyone made cards.

We need to get a birthday ritual going in our house soon. What were your birthday rituals?

That’s me at six. A bad hair day. I didn’t let my mom brush my hair very often.