Happy 44th to DH

Today is DH's 44th birthday. Apparently, none of the children remembered this fact this morning, but he was fine with it. He spent the day at home playing with his new PS3 game, in between caring for DS#3, of course. One of our good friends, KT, walked by while I was talking to DH, so I handed her the phone to say "Happy Birthday". When he told her what he had planned for today, she joked to him, "I want your life." She has a pretty hectic schedule with her three children also but we talked today about how we'll both miss our hectic schedules when the kids are grown and out of the house. She really wishes she could stay home with the kids.

At one point today, KT was calling her kids' school because two of her kids were in the school nurse's office. She made me glad that DH is able to stay home and take care of the kids when they're sick. One of the other ladies at work complained that she had to make phone calls about her broken water softener instead of her husband making the calls. After that I called DH just to tell him that I appreciate all that he does for me and for our family. He makes life SO much easier for me!

One thing that DH didn't want to do today was cook or prepare dinner--or clean up after dinner. We expected to have soccer practice tonight from 6-7:30PM and then 7:30-9PM. The weather was a bit "misty" or drizzly and cloudy for most of the day, but it wasn't too wet. Despite that, we got the word this afternoon that the soccer fields were closed. It was as if God smiled on DH and cancelled soccer so that DH was able to go out to eat with his family on his birthday. He had said on Sunday that going out to eat with the family was all he really wanted for his birthday.

DS#1 was done with high school soccer practice by 5:30PM so we left his school and met DH and the other kids at Fuddrucker's. After dinner we went to the Baskin-Robbins near our house. I had to take this picture because DS#1 was sitting next to the spot on the wall that said, "Eat dessert first" with his huge waffle cone. DS#2 is making that funny face (he actually wanted to be in the picture!) because he was disappointed that he only got a kids' cone versus the big waffle cone. He's trying to look like he's pouting in the picture.

We didn't know about it ahead of time, but apparently kids' scoops are $1 on Tuesdays. We would have gotten DS#3 one of his own anyway, but cheaper is better. When he saw DD's Rainbow Sherbet, he immediately asked for the "pink and owe-ange one". He was taking so long to eat his ice cream and we were all waiting for him to finish so we could go home. Luckily, he started feeding DD his ice cream. She wanted to have some more ice cream and he really enjoyed feeding it to her.

Tonight DH played his new game for another couple of hours. I think this turned out to be a very happy birthday for him. :)