Birthday Madness

It seems everytime i turn around, it is someones birthday...Andrew Feb.6, Kyle, March1, my Mom, Granny, sisters, the birthdays are crazy...

I still have to take Kyle and Timmi out to dinner, and send Fr. Matthew birthday greetings, He turned 89 this week, and is still going strong...he gives me the lecture, why when he was my age, he could have run circles around me...

I tell him, the good lord gave you an iron constitution, and he gave me 9 children and 4 auto-immune diseases...so I can't keep up with a man who is twice my age...motherhood has consolations...i am sure in time, i will be able to appreciate my diagnosis, and find consolation in it...for now i just do the best i can...

I have hidden what i have for so long, until i could no longer hide it, and have to say outloud, yes, i have this, no i am not just skipping out on ball games, my body is skipping out on me...

Jonathan is still wanting to have a houseful of boys over for a game day, as we had no water, and a blizzard during his birthday...why not it will be great fun...a ball game at Tucker field and a mess of boys to eat me out of house and home...oh wait, i already have that....

Next up on the birthday list...my daughter in law Timmi...she will be 20, and then later in April my dear Sean Patrick will turn 8...we will have a small birthday break , which will coincide with little league base-ball, and the older childrens seasons...soft-ball, track, base-ball..

The consolations of motherhood..

life, liberty and pursuit of happiness...

There you have it, my dear girl has said out loud, what i have been thinking she was thinking.. it goes something like this...if i live at home, there are rules, if i live at home, there are chores, if i live at home, there are people there that think rules and chores, need to be obeyed...those people take away cars...


If i stay in the dorms this summer, i will have to go to classes, and do more class work, but the rules, and chores are my own.....

I could take the summer off, and get a job for the summer, and stay at home, but those pesky parents and rules swarm me like mosquitos...and all those children, i love them, but they are so loud, and all over me...

I want to see my boyfriend any time i please, and not have anyone tell me no...no you can't go out to the bridge, no you can't spend the night at Josh's Grandmas, no, it just doesn't look nice...like i care what anyone thinks...I am 18, I am a college student, I am supposed to have fun,I am supposed to do whatever I want to do, I am an adult...I am not doing anything wrong...I just sleep on the futon...at his friends grandmas it is no big deal mom...don't roll your eyes, and get all mom on me...

This conversation has been provided courtesy of my active imagination and my beautiful 18 daughter Ashley Catherine Julieanne...the college student...to be continued..