Happy Birthday!

Well, Happy Birthday to me! It has already been so great. John took the day off to celebrate, and to fix the shower with my dad, but mostly to celebrate ME!
I love my birthday, but don't like it being so close to Christmas. December is like a month long celebration anyway. I feel like I get to enjoy my Birthday Season. So when someone says Happy Holidays they are not just referring to Kwanzaa, but to Charissa's birthday as well. It's a known fact. I know and now you do too! :)
John is so good at celebrating. One year he had a surprise party for me 2 weeks after my birthday. He took down all the ornaments off the Christmas tree and wrapped it in streamers and a balloons for a "birthday" tree. No July birthday has that!
One year I did get to have my birthday at school- 4th grade (even though I'm older I still have a mind like a trap!). My mom wrote a letter on each cupcake that spelled out- Happy Birthday Charissa. My friends got to pick out the letter they wanted. She made the coolest cakes: circus ones, shape ones like a bear, and my favorite of all- She actually made Cinderella's coach- the one that took her to the ball with horses , glass slippers, mice and all!
We used to (my brother and I) pick the restaurant we all got to go to on our birthdays. I picked TGIFridays and they tied balloons in my hair and sang happy birthday. I got wished well by some strange men in a bar. Sadly, not the last time!


How old you ask- UMMMMMMM you guess!!!!!!!!
This was going on in my birth year- http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,911945,00.html


What's your favorite birthday memory?
One of mine has to be that this year I get to hold my baby that just one year ago was still inside my tummy.