Category: Birthday
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Why I’m Having A Women-Only Birthday Party
Surely, if men truly valued us and saw us as equals, they would feel as strongly about our struggles as they do the Middle East crisis.
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Empty-Nesting: How awesomely liberating is it doing exactly what YOU want now?
It’s my birthday next week, and as has been our agreement for a number of years, the old man and I have a process in place for the event when it comes to presents. It goes something like this: I negotiate a budget (that usually works in my favour because he pretends to feel some…
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Kids’ Birthday Cakes: Or As I Like To Call It, The Public Shaming Of Mothers That Can’t
Yep, there it is – new evidence of my failure at motherhood in one of its major disciplines – Kurt’s twenty-first birthday cake. Kids’ birthday cakes have always felt to me like one of the ultimate tests of motherhood; rather like keeping your kids alive when as toddlers they seem hellbent on killing themselves. In…
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The Curious Incident Of The Dog With The Pooey Ass
The Princess Spoodle’s birthday didn’t start well today. While the old man was out playing tennis, she had one of those unfortunate incidents of a sticky dingleberry stuck to her nether regions – a mortifying turn of events to a dog of her breeding with associated sensitivities. It’s one of those situations that any parent…
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Celebrating Your Millennial’s Birthday In Style
In spite of Kim Jong-un’s very obvious intention to spoil all our fun, Saturday marked the end of the last birthday “event” in our house for this year, as well as the end of winter and its excuse for visible leg hair. It was NC’s 23rd birthday “event” and she chose to mark its Grand…
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