Happy half a birthday to you....

Today the firstborn in our home turned 13 and a half. What fun crazy thing did I do for him you ask, well..... I was going to have a balloon and his favorite candy delivered to the school ( I was going to eat half of the candy) since he never gets birthday deliveries at school with a July birthday and all. But, as it was preschool today I never made it to the store to accomplish afore mentioned task. Then I thought I might bake a cake and throw half of it away--but Jr. Miss was right away today instead of in the evening. Then all of a sudden I was back home with five kids, no man(business trip) and all Jax got was, "happy half a birthday son" from me. He replied with " oh, yeah, cool---can I quit wrestling?" I replied "I don't know, ask your Dad." It was a special time for us both!! I did however sneak in his room tonight and take a picture of "half" his face (I always wondered when bed head occurred--apparently early on in the sleeping process)! This will have to do for now. I resolve to do better at half birthday's for us all this year. Once a year just isn't enough times to have a fuss made about each one of them. I need to do more. Tonight the man comes back, the lone grownup in the house won't be so outnumbered and I am sure to get my groove back. And I want to say that silly or not -- you don't forget to feel grateful for the Half birthday's when at one time in life you weren't sure he would have any more birthdays at all. The blessing of cancer, you don't ever forget to feel gratitude for every milestone or in this case half a milestone!