Twenty-five

My birthday was a few weeks ago (Jul 22nd), but I really wanted to blog about it because it was a wonderful day. Brian surprised me by taking the day off, so I was able to sleep in, and he helped tend the kids (so I guess I was only working part-time that day?). He also took Kara and Joshua out for a while, so I had some peaceful, quiet "me time," since I was left with just Nada, who isn't much of a handful yet. That afternoon my amazing friend Ashley watched the older two munchkins, and Brian and I (took the babe and) went to see Harry Potter. We splurged this year on a Cold Stone ice cream cake (I hadn't had an ice cream cake for my birthday in years!), and it was reeeeeeally yummy! Brian put the kids to bed and sent me off to get a full-body massage, peppermint foot scrub, and a hot towel & cold stone face massage. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm! Here's to the next quarter of a century.