Today is George’s 35th birthday. Kind of a low key day! Since we’ve had chaos with all the moving stuff, birthday was a bit off the radar. We had not much babysitter luck, so we spent most of the day doing house stuff and trying to think up some fun birthday-ish thing to do with all the kids.

You know, Portland is a bit low on the kid entertainment scale. There’s not much to do with teeny tinies that isn’t outdoors (like zoo) or expensive (we were going to go to the circus but $100 seemed like a lot for an evening).

We ended up going to the very swanky Home Town Buffet restaurant, which I must say the kids were thrilled about. They each said numerous times how much fun they had and how much they liked the food.

Since they were all really well behaved, actually ate their dinners, and were generally exuberant and cheery, we parents enjoyed ourselves as well. If Georgie hadn’t thrown up in the car just as we were pulling into the parking lot, it would have been perfect!

Actually, George said when he got home that he really enjoyed dinner. These are words I never expected from him in reference to Home Town Buffet; but he clarified that the food was not the attraction, the company was. He enjoyed the kids. Sometimes it’s nice to take them out and enjoy them out of the house. Particularly fun when they aren’t tired, hungry, crabby, fighting, or sick. So about once a year.

Tomorrow night Katie is coming over to babysit so we can go out for his actual birthday date. Dinner & a movie isn’t the most exciting outing, but last week we went on a dinner cruise on the Willamette to unwind from our craparoony month of frantically trying to find somewhere to live. This weekend he just wants to relax and do something comfortable, I think, which translates to dinner & a show.

So, since his birthday today didn’t really go as expected and was a bit on the frustrating side for most of the day, I want to wish him a Happy Un-Birthday. I love you!

Rachel

Written by Rachel Shubin ~ Fiendish friend for effusive fun!