My oldest had a birthday yesterday. He turned seven! Wow, how time flies. It’s hard to believe that pretty soon he will be starting second grade, and becoming even more independent than he already is. Although that shouldn’t surprise me considering that he came up with a list of birthday rules:

1. Everyone MUST be happy.
2. No gamecube or gameboy during his party (not like I was going to play it, LOL, but, whatever …)
3. Presents, Games, then cake, in that order.
4. No one shall eat cake before he gets a bite. In fact, he will take the first bite, then his brother, then his mom and lastly his dad.
5. Let’s Party!

Artistically challenged as I am, I managed to make a cake, with my husband’s help. He drew on the chocolate frosting with a toothpick and then I spent two hours with a paintbrush painting frosting on the cake. It will never win any awards, but when I brought it out my son knew exactly what (who) it was, so I guess I did

something right.