Not Everyone's Mama

I was going through the emails I get every day with blog updates.  I’m never good at checking an RSS feed reader thing, I subscribe to every blog that I read that gives me an email option so that I don’t forget to check them.  Then I set up message rules to put them in a special folder so I can go through them all at once.

Last night I got my daily update from Anti-Supermom with A Letter To Parents.  Go read it.  I’ll wait for you.  I adore her. 

She got me thinking about the boys’ birthdays coming up and what Pato wants to do. If you’ve been reading my blog for awhile, you know that Jordan (going to be 11) and Christiano (going to be 1) share the same birthday.  Both of my boys were born on February 23.

Pato has these big grandiose plans for Jordan’s birthday.  Those plans are not baby friendly at all.  He has this bright idea of taking my 2 brothers, my 2 oldest nieces, Jordan, himself, and 4 of Jordan’s friends to paintball.  Do you know how much that costs?  I didn’t either.  He called and checked and it’s $225, it might have been $250. 

Let’s go through why this bothers me.  A – I don’t do parties at places like Pump It Up because I spend a lot of $$$ on my kids’ presents (probably too much).  I’d rather they have something they can hold onto and keep than 2 hours of fun that will soon be gone, yes, I know they can hold on to memories, but work with me here.  You might be coloring me cheap and that’s ok, I am.  Plus, if we go do things like that, some of my family members are left out (the older ones without any kids – the grandparents.  I’ve never seen my dad jump an an inflatable anything and my mom tends to hurt things when she’s is jumping, sliding, falling, etc. We try to keep her out of those situations when we don’t have her tied up in bubble wrap.  They end up not going when we have parties at those places.

[This posting was interrupted by a 10 month old who is running a fever throwing up all  over me.  Poor Nano.]

B – It will be Nano’s birthday too.  And it’s a big birthday.  He’s going to be 1.  You don’t just fluff that over.  How much fun is he going to have sitting home with mom and his sisters while dad and Jordan are out having a war with paint pellets?

I thought we’d do the normal party here for both of them with the whole family invited.  The kids always fight a lot over who is playing with who have fun when all of their cousins are around.

Pato has his heart set on Paintball.  And now he’s got Jordan’s heart set on it.  I don’t know how many times I’ve told him not to get the kids’ hopes up for something until it’s been decided.  He thinks they will help talk me into something just gets all excited over his idea and can’t contain it.

Then there is the cake dilemma. We usually order our cakes from Hy-Vee.  Their whipped frosting is the yummiest.  We all gather round my computer and the birthday kid to be looks through their designs and picks their cake.  Then I call and order it.

For the first birthday they give you a matching little round cake for the baby to dig into.  It’s tradition.  All of my kids have had that 1st cake.  The problem is the main cake has to say happy first birthday.  I can’t add and happy 11th birthday. Simple enough, I just buy the extra little round cake.  The other problem is, who picks out the way the cake is decorated?  Jordan doesn’t want a cutesy little baby cake and Christiano isn’t exactly in to Bakugan yet.  Maybe I could go with something like this –

Harley Davidson cake

Christiano likes anything with wheels.  Jordan likes motorcycles.  I think I just worked that out in my blog post.  Jordan just looked at the cake and said he liked it.  I’ll just ask them to make the baby cake to match.

You might ask why I don’t make the cake?  Because whenever I try to decorate a cake it ends in disaster. (Thank God no one has put me on Cake Wrecks yet.)

That was Kat’s 4th birthday cake.  Not so pretty.

Alyce’s 2nd birthday cake.  Not quite the disaster of pink lumpiness that Kat’s was, but still not as  cool as the decorated one.  (In my defense, the pink lumpiness came because I sat the decorating frosting by the stove when the cake was cooking and it was half melted.  Never mind, maybe that isn’t quite a defense, since I’m the one who put it there.)

I told Pato I did not want to have Christiano on Jordan’s birthday.  No, no, no.  I wanted them each to have their own days so that I wouldn’t have to figure out how to make one day special for both of them.  Think my body would listen? 

Oh well, it’ll all work out.  It’s this first one that will be hard when it comes to working out the logistics of all of it.  After that I’ll know what to do.

And the Ricky Martin tweet of the day –

Maybe that should have been yesterday’s tweet of the day but I didn’t see it until after I posted yesterday.

And I’ll leave you with an artist that I saw over on Mama’s Money Savers.  I saw the pictures in one of my email updates and had to go check out the giveaway.  Now I must have this CD.  I love her!  MoZella – Belle Isle.  The whole CD is only $5 for the MP3 version.  I think I’m going to have to get it.

Is her voice not gorgeous? I’m probably the last one to hear of her.  I always am.  I had her MySpace page open last night and listened to her songs over and over.  Love her!

I just noticed that video was recorded here in Des Moines, Ia.  Very cool!

PS In my surfing I came across prenatal vitamins reviews.  I take them still since I am at 10 months of nursing number 4.  What’s your favorite?  I can’t take actually prenatals when I’m pregnant.  I have to take Flintstones – a double dose each day.  Prenatals make my morning sickness so bad that I end up on nausea medicine.  After giving birth though and while nursing, I can take them just fine.  How weird is that?

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