There’s also a real one in the freezer to have for dinner tonight after we have one of my favorite meals, Cola Chicken with mashed potatoes and peas. Yum.

Kaitlyn has been sick for two days, not keeping anything down, and now she’s complaining about an earache. That’s why I’m up at 2:55 a.m., I was administering a dose of Children’s Tylenol and figured as long as I was up, I’d get my birthday post published. Hopefully she’ll let me sleep in a little in the morning, since I’m definitely not sending her to school.

Anyway, since you’re here, I hope you’ll leave a comment letting me know you stopped by! It’s been my tradition ever since my birthday in 2006 to put up a birthday post and ask my readers to leave at least as many comments as the number of my age. So that means I’m hoping to get 45 comments on this post!

All comments are welcome but could you spammers do me a favor and go someplace else today? I don’t feel like deleting spam on my birthday, especially when I have a sick kid, too. Consider it your gift to me on this momentous occasion Everybody else – thanks so much in advance for your comments! I’m going to get my butt to bed before I end up sleeping away my whole birthday.

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Dinner at Logan’s Roadhouse was really good, then we came home and had the cake, which I bought at Meijer. Chocolate cake with whipped chocolate frosting, YUM. Plus I bought Breyer’s natural vanilla to go on the side.

So, yeah. That happened.

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Not us, but very similar!

A post from my friend Deb at Mom Of 3 Girls titled This is why we don’t watch tv in the mornings… prompted me to write this post, because our stories are so hilariously similar! Thanks for the post idea, Deb!

Kaitlyn’s bus is technically supposed to come at 7:44 a.m.  But, depending on traffic and weather and whether or not the kids who get picked up before Kaitlyn are actually there or not, the bus can come as early as 7:40.

We are supposed to stand at the end of the driveway where the driver can see us so she knows to stop. Which means walking out to the driveway at 7:39 and then…waiting. Five minutes is a long time when you are just standing there with a wiggly five year old!

I think it was the third day of school when the driver figured out that if she doesn’t see us in the driveway, she should stop the bus in front of the house and wait. Because there are some mornings when I think Kaitlyn is all ready to go, but then something goes wrong.

Recent examples include not being able to find her fleece hoodie anywhere (it was later found in her room), a last-minute request for a cup of milk (she doesn’t eat breakfast at home unless she’s really hungry, the school serves free breakfast), and of course, the missing shoes.

Kaitlyn has two pairs of shoes. Yes, I realize that’s not very many, but we are on a tight, tight, tight budget, so it’s necessity around here, not vanity. One pair of black mary janes and one pair of tennis shoes is what she has. Most days she wears the tennis shoes.

Last week, it was 7:38, and I could not find EITHER pair of shoes anywhere. I was looking in every room of the house, Kaitlyn was looking in her room, and then I heard a horn honking. That’s right, the bus driver was parked in front of the house, honking the bus horn. At 7:40 in the morning. I’m sure my neighbors were thrilled.

After the second horn honk (sorry, neighbors!), I suddenly spotted a bit of tennis shoe poking out from under the couch. I reached down, pulled out both shoes, shoved them in Kaitlyn’s hands, ran with her to the front door, and sent her out to the bus, across the front lawn, in her socks-covered feet with her tennis shoes in her hands.

If bus drivers get together for coffee after they drop all the kids off, I guarantee you I was a topic of conversation. I am going to need to give that bus driver a REALLY good Christmas present for all the trouble she goes through to get my kid to school every day!

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