Pre-birthday … Melancholy
I love birthdays. All birthdays. Anyone’s birthdays. When Mike and I first met, he was confounded by my adoration of the birthday concept. His family wasn’t really celebratory. Mike’s not one to want much in life, which is nice but frustrating at gift-giving times. Griff is much the same.
Griff’s birthday is next week… he’ll be 10! And I think that 10 is a big birthday and that we should do something fun, something special. Now, I know he’s got both legs in casts. I know. But surely we could manage something good, right?
But he doesn’t want anything. Can’t think of what he’d like as a gift… doesn’t want a cake. Which says to me that he’s a happy content child. Which is exactly what I want for him! Really! But dangit, it does disappoint a birthday-loving mama’s heart. It makes me a little melancholy thinking about my little boy turning 10 and not wanting a cake.
Thankfully, my melancholy moments are fleeting but my birthday devotion is not. I’m going to spend the next week planning.
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awwww. My son will be 5 next month. I’m looking at dinosaur cakes. I don’t want to think about him getting even older!!
I would just make his favorite meal instead, but then I am not really a celebratory type–I prefer each day is special to one day being special.:)
Have fun planning, I hope he has a great birthday!