And mom has not updated the blog. How did I get here? 🧐😫😵
We had a small family birthday dinner on Tuesday for Jack with a tiny little cake. His friend celebration is this weekend which includes a much better and prettier cake (peanut butter/Reese’s, his choice) and a day of skiing with friends. Therefore this was more of a symbolic cake hahah.
Jack art directed my photos, naturally. i got him a skateboard by one of his favorite artists, Vexx (go check him out on Instagram). His dad got him the Apple Pencil to go with his new iPad.
Jack: Mom, put the skateboard behind the cake like this. And then, no no no don’t aim at it like that you have to go like this.
He gets in front to demonstrate pretty much what I was going to do anyway.
Jack: then just get the candles and I’ll go behind it.
me: You done? Get over there because the candles are melting.
Dennis (Jack’s dad): Is glitter getting on the cake? I don’t want to eat melted glitter.
me: The glitter is edible.
Jack and Dennis: No it isn’t!
me: Sigh.
So I took the photo and we sang happy birthday. Well, I sang. Dennis scraped glitter off the cake.
And then we ate the cake and Jack hung the skateboard on his wall. He turned another year older as easy as that. Coincidentally he was born on a Tuesday so this brought us right back to a bunch of memories.
Before bed we watched Rhythm and Flow on Netflix. It’s a good show/contest about trying to find the best new rap star. I loved the series and had watched it in 2020 when I was home. Home a lot. I got Jack into it and he’s hooked. I won’t spoil the ending but we are going to see the winner perform in NYC next weekend and we are both so excited!!! Eeeeeeee!!! Though it’s in a Sunday night. Oh well. YOLO as Jack used to say a few years ago. You only live once!
When the show ended jack said he had to go study for a Spanish midterm. I started telling him about the day he was born and how he came 5 weeks early and how I didn’t get an epidural and his dad passed out, etc.
Jack: Well that took 45 minutes! I have to go study.
me: Well I guess I had to get that story out. Do you see what i went through? 2 days of labor. Birthdays should really be celebrations for the moms. Look at all the work I did omg!!
Jack: yeah that’s not happening. Don’t eat the rest of the cake.
me: Sheesh Jack.
And there you have turning 17. Driving. Prepping for midterms, finalizing college financial forms and waiting for acceptance letters to roll in. 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
Omg I almost forgot I have to update the blog header again! Someone remind me in the comments LOL!! oh, and Jack got an97 on that midterm. Yay!!
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