Project 365 - Day 330

Happy Thanksgiving to all! Happy Birthday to me. I got a wonderful surprise from my friend Myla yesterday. She dropped off some flowers and a very nice card. I got lots of nice birthday wishes from friends via email. Thanksgiving was a small get together this year. Just our family of five, my brother's family of three, my parents and my grandparents. Laura helped me cook, the kids played, we deep fried the turkey (I know it sounds weird but it is really good!), Laura had one of every dessert (four different things) and I got my coconut cake.

I guess I was being a pretty big baby about this cake thing. It is not my dream to have to share my birthday with Thanksgiving every year (although it is not on the actual day but every four years). I mean who would choose to have your birthday on a holiday? I know I don't have it as bad as Christmas but it is sometimes a bummer - NOT THIS YEAR. I felt very special and very loved. The kids were great. Mike got the Pioneer Woman cookbook I have been wanting. My parents got me a new laptop for my back to school adventure beginning in January. My Grandma sent me some mad money that I used to get a new bedspread I have been wanting and just couldn't justify spending household money on.

But I should get back to the cake. I love this cake and the store doesn't make it anymore unless you special order it and then it is like five or six layers and huge and I don't need or want a cake that big. Dad wanted pumpkin parfaits for dessert, Mike, Joey and Jovanni are chocolate pie guys, my mom wanted pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting so I said enough was enough, we are not having birthday cake but I still kept thinking and apparently talking about it. I even made comments that day about how I at least wanted to make the cupcakes look cute because I didn't have a cake. I should have noticed the smirk on my mom's face. So as I was trying to clean up the kids were putting candles on the cake and totally surprised me. The bakery ended up making a smaller version so now I won't feel too bad for eating it.

All in all it was a very special day. My dad is babysitting all three kids while my mom and I head out to Black Friday shopping. Mike even went shopping with me on Thanksgiving night to Michael's for the super early sneak peek sale and I got scrapbooking organization cubes to make a desk so I don't have to take over the living room anymore.

I am so thankful for so many things. I am thankful that Mike works so I can stay at home with my children. I am thankful for my children for making me a mommy and teaching me things I can only learn from them. I am thankful for my parents for far too many reasons to mention. I am thankful for my friends for being supportive and loving in good times and rougher times. I live a truly blessed life and am thankful for every day.