Today is Genius Golfer's birthday. Like I told you, he is stuck celebrating with Cub Scouts tonight at their Blue and Gold banquet. I feel like I should play the wife card and demand that he be home so we can celebrate as a family. But as the family will be concurrently at Young Women, Scouts, and B & G Banquet tonight, I guess I should hold that card for another time.
We will still go to school and go to work and do all the things that have to happen around here on a given day--birthday or not. But it definitely feels like a let down.
Perhaps it is my expectations poking their ugly heads up again only to feel guilty for not doing what "should be" done. That is probably it.
Ideally, for example, I should write up 43 things I love and admire about GG in celebration of his birthday. But he has quit reading the blog since the one posting he read, he thought was rude. We have since settled that disagreement, but it was funny that THAT post was the only one he saw. So 43 things might be over the top.
No poetry for birthdays, that is a given. My attempt at the recent Valentine poem was, let's say, less than spectacular, so I won't force that one you again.
So a cake and gifts it will be. I even have a special "husband's birthday" card for him--with no poetry at all. We'll make dinner a different night or take him out to dinner to celebrate. Expectations make poor party planners, huh?
No matter if my attempts to celebrate this wonderful man's birthday are sorely lacking, I will be sure to tell him the most important things, whenever we celebrate. "I love you" and "I appreciate all you do for me and the family" and "I can't imagine my life without you" and "Happy Birthday!"
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