A Word From the Birthday Cake Stealer, aka Earthling

My name is B and I am a Birthday & Birthday Cake Stealer.  To follow up on T's blog titled "Birthday Cake Stealer & Alien", I will agree that I owe my sister cake pops at the very least.  To bring you up to speed, I was born on her 6th Birthday.  Yes, that's right.  We both were born on May 13th but six years apart.  From that day on, we forever share the bond of being sisters.  We also share the Taurus astrological sign.  We also share our love of mint chocolate chip ice cream, and laughing.  There are alot of things that I enjoy sharing in the sisterhood, but until I got older I didn't appreciate sharing the day with my sister.

As a child, you feel as if your Birthday is the one day a year to look forward to as being "all yours".  I used to look at it like I had to share and I didn't have my "own" special day.  I had to share a cake, and the attention, etc...

One year, we were each allowed to have a slumber party for our Birthday, and each on different weekends.  Our parents gave us each a seperate weekend to give us special time with our friends.
I don't remember everything from my childhood but there are several things that have left a positive imprint on my memory and these parties are one of them. 

The weekend T had her party, I remember her friends coming over and they seemed so cool.  Like suddenly our home was filled with these celebrity types who were going to discuss things like boys, softball, and school.  I wanted to be everywhere they were.  It probably drove them nuts but I couldn't help it.  Who wanted to play with Barbies and hang with Mom when these cool, older girls were in the house?

The weekend of my party came.  I was so excited to have my friends come over to hang out, and have cake.  It was our turn to talk about boys, school, My Little Ponies, and softball.  I'm not sure if we discussed softball, but maybe.  My friends started arriving one by one.  Once everyone had arrived we were busily going up and down the ladder to the attic (where everyone was going to "camp out") and going in and out of the house.  Eventually the party went on, and some of my friends started following my sister.  Suddenly T had a whole new group of "Earthlings" bothering her.  I couldn't help it, the Taurus jealousy came out.  I was so upset that my friends wanted to hang out with her.  My older sister.  Thinking back I realize that she was outside trying to get away from us, but the group was drawn to her and her coolness.  Finally, I think our Mom stepped in and distracted us to give T a break and to calm me down.

When I was sixteen, I started dating the man who would someday be my husband.  Unbelievably, his father shared the same Birthday as us too!  I took it as one of the "signs" that we were meant to be together...Surely this must be the planets aligning to tell us something.  I look back now, and feel greatful that I made a wise choice for my husband at such a young age.  You don't always look ahead at the big picture when you are so young, but luckily we've managed to grow up and make a good life together.

Fast forward eleven years from my 16th Birthday, to my 27th.  We are married and pregnant with our first child.  We are finishing up a house we had been building in preparation for our new addition.  We were packing and preparing as much as possible for the hospital, our son was to be born that next day.  You see, our son was a scheduled C-Section and we had a small window of days to choose from for his Birthday.  We chose for his special day to be May 14th, one day passed ours.  I felt as if it were important to give him his own "special" day, so he wouldn't feel slighted in the least as a child.  He would have his own day to celebrate, and when he is older he can decide how he wants to celebrate- with us or without us.  So until then, he gets his own cake :-)

As you grow up, Birthdays don't hold as much sparkle and luster as they did when you were say, 5.  I do realize they are still your special day, and should be treated as such...Some of my friends hold their husbands and families to "Birthday Months."  However, as an adult, I appreciate and look forward to sharing this one day a year with my sister.  Someone who will never forget your Birthday, who will share your cake, and who will make sure you get a Birthday card in the mail...and you will make sure to return the favor.

Now you might say it's a weird coincidence that our parents, my husbands grandparents, and my husband & I all got "busy" around the same time of year.  I think it is a pretty cool one, and I couldn't imagine it any other way.  I can't imagine NOT sharing the day with T, and with my father in law..and one handsome boy who's Birthday falls on the following day.  Coincidence, I think not.

Embrace Your Sparkle!

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