I have always had a pretty good memory. My memory is especially good when it comes to things that no one else typically remembers and random facts about things. For instance, just the other night we were watching ESPN and they were talking about the gold jacket ceremonies and Kurt Warner's name was brought up. I turned to Matt and said that Kurt Warner used to play arena football and I don't know why I know that! He said that he thought it was CFL that he had played so I looked it up to see if my memory really was so random. I was right. Seriously though, how does my mind remember that but I can't remember how to multiply fractions?
I remember most of my birthdays. I say most because I don't remember the first 4 at least. 1 year on my birthday John Candy died (he was an actor and I loved his movies, Uncle Buck for instance), another year we went to discovery zone and a different year I had a birthday party in April when it was warm, even though my birthday is March 4. I have always loved my birthday and loved getting older each year.
Since becoming a mom I have had my birthday on the back burner and we don't celebrate it as much. I don't let that bother me though, but probably because we go all out for the boys birthdays who are just 6 and 4 weeks before mine! The first birthday of mine that we celebrated in NC was one of my favorites! Matt missed Bruce's 5th birthday and Levi's 1st birthday after deploying to Haiti within hours after an earthquake struck. We didn't know when he would be home or how long he would be gone, so I figured he would miss all of our birthdays. After 6 weeks of being gone he was home unexpectedly days before my birthday! The next year he was deploying to Iraq in May and had to go to JRTC before hand. We knew he would be gone the month of March and surprisingly he left a few days after my birthday instead of before. There have been a year here or there where he was in the field in the spring, but not on my birthday! I think it is funny that the only birthday, holiday or special day that he has NEVER missed (as of yet) has been my birthday!
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The funny thing about that is that my birthday isn't treated very special. Don't get me wrong, the boys and Matt make my birthday nice by going out to eat and letting me buy whatever I want, but no parties, no cakes or anything too extravagant! I love that we celebrate my day in a low key way and don't do it big, because then I would feel that I have to make all of their birthdays even more special!
In 53 days I will be 29 and I am hoping that Matt's arm is healed enough to go out to eat and see a movie as a family! The last year in my 20's is going to be a blast! I wasn't a typical person in their 20's because I became a mom when I was almost 19 years old. I have grown so much since becoming a mom almost 10 years ago (wowza, I feel old), but I would never change that or I wouldn't be me!
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