Top Ten Birthday Stories, Plus One!

Mommy Grows Up: Birthday Monday: "Birthday Monday

My birthday is this week, so I am offering both a birthday story and a birthday top ten.

First, the story. Katie is currently obsessed with birthdays. Especially mine. This is due, largely in part, to the Dora story which she insists on hearing every night. And I mean every night. It's the Dora story where Dora goes on a trip to gather the ingredients for a recipe for her Mami's birthday cake. She gets nuts, bananas and chocolate - the chocolate from a chocolate tree which, quite frankly, I want to know the whereabouts of.

So, anyway, Katie is obsessed with my birthday. Our neighbors were strolling down the street the other day and we were chatting when Katie announces that it's 'my mommy's birthday!' And I say, well, not today, but soon. Frankie, our neighbor's oldest child who is five, looks at me and asks me how old I am. And I say, very dramatically, 'I'm going to be a HUNDRED years old!' And both Frankie and Zoe get very quiet. At which point their mother whispers to me, 'That's how old we tell them people are when they go to heaven.' Doh! So in honor of my birthday, I've traumatized the neighbor's children.

And also speaking of birthdays, I've decided that today's top ten is my top ten memorable birthdays. As usual, in no particular order."


Want to hear about birthdays? Stories of ones that went right and ones that went horribly wrong? You're in for a treat. Read this!