Birthday

We celebrated my husband’s birthday this month. It was a low-key affair with just me and NR wishing CB .

Last year I planned a big surprise party with a 22 month old boy in tow.  I invited friends, booked the venue and got hand written birthday wishes from his friends, my friends and family few weeks before his big birthday.  I shopped for birthday decoration few hours before the party and decorated the venue with a help of a friend. I came back home and made entire birthday dinner from my neighbor’s house. I finished everything within four hours of time with  CB not having a clue about his surprise birthday party. I never thought I would be able to pull off  the surprise party without a glitch.  But I did.

This year I planned to make a cake for him. But baking and decorating a cake at  home meant he will see his birthday cake before his birthday. So I got a strawberry mousse cheese cake from store.

We would have missed the cake since it was raining that day and NR decided to sleep when we were about to go out. A friend went shopping for us . When I opened the door to receive my friend , CB pulled up in our driveway  and got a peek into his cake and birthday balloons. This is first year I decided to skip getting him gift . The gifts I got for Christmas is still in the wrapper: ( .  I will not buy “ books as gifts “.

I cooked a simple dinner for us. The day was over with just three of us having a good time. He had  two tiny hands and legs hugging him and giving the best gift for this birthday –Kisses and sweet laughter. And appa was so happy.