It was my birthday a few days ago. Being a weekday, it was one of the regular days. Wake up early morning, send the older to school. Then wait till younger wakes up and send her to school. And then there was a load of work to be done that day. So it was a pretty busy day.

I had reminded P the previous night that it’s my birthday tomorrow but I guess it slipped out of her mind in the morning. When I told A that it’s mamma’s birthday today she said “kahan hai mamma ka birthday? Anu jaa rahi hai kya?” 🤣 for her a birthday is only going to birthday party and eating cake! She obviously doesn’t understand the concept of birth and being born into this world on a particular day. So I told her yes…. we will have the party at home…. 😂

As for P… when I reminded her again after she got back from school…. she became a bundle of excitement. All of a sudden she had some plans up her sleeves and started running around thinking what she should do and what she should gift me. She asked me where my craft stuff was kept. She opened it and took out a few items and gift wrapped them for me. She made a card and some other stuff you can see in the pictures. She served me dinner and made me sit on a throne! And laid out my night clothes and toothbrush and paste in the bathroom for me to use. I surprised at how thoughtful she was and how she wanted everything to be special for me even though it was just another week day. In fact it was one of the busier days for me and I had been in and out of the house the entire day. So when I came back in the evening these amazing things were all ready and waiting for me to indulge in. She did everything she could do on her own and completely made my day.

It’s not about how big the celebration is, it’s how special it is. Having a big party etc is just for our adult ego satisfaction. Kids don’t care about all that. I have been guilty of indulging in the past. As I have to start planning for their birthday (P is on 14th Feb And A on 15th Feb 😃 so I have to plan only 1!!!) I was wondering how should I balance. How should I invite the maximum people and still make it a small affair? Coz you know…. my kids don’t care if it’s a small party. They just want to enjoy with their friends. But I have to invite these people because of my social commitments. I ask P for a list of her friends she wants to invite and I realise it’s half the number that I want to invite. And I’m like please give me more names! I can’t call only 7! And then 25% won’t turn up so only 5!!!! Then count A’s And that’s like 5-8. And then I realise that both their friends put together are equal to the number I want to invite 🤪

I’m still figuring how to make it smaller….