Is there anything more fun than a summer cold? I mean, really! I was battling allergies all right, and the sudden, episodic fits of sneezing with subsequent nose-gushage (that’s really hard to say out loud, by the way. try it.) when out of the blue they transmogrified into something quite a bit more sinister. My throat hurt. And my head began to make a strange crackling noise whenever I swallowed. My teeth hurt. My eyes hurt. And the things that began to appear in my tissue were downright terrifying.
Ah, bacteria! You make life so interesting!
Today I think I’m trying to feel better. I can’t really be sure, because I didn’t get much sleep last night so I cannot tell how I would feel if I had. I didn’t get much sleep last night because a certain little boy did this yesterday afternoon…
…which means he conked out at about 6pm. Which means at about 3am in the morning, I heard “mooooommmmmyyyyy!” and had a very happy 2 year old who wanted to know why it was still so dark and quiet even though it was obviously breakfast-time.
I hope everyone had a lovely Memorial Day. We celebrated Charity, who successfully made the leap to double-digits this year.
She’s my Y2K baby…born in the year 2000, the year we were all supposed to be plunged into darkness and mayhem. The year we all ran outside at midnight, Jan. 1st, to see if the neighborhood homes would suddenly revert to caves. The year we stockpiled necessities like oatmeal and tylenol and batteries and bugles and cheez-its.
Not really.
So the big caveman-retrograde didn’t happen, but I have to say…maybe because of all the hype seeping through my pores…Charity is a little…quirky. And I’ve talked to other people with Y2K babies, and they say the same things.
“Those Y2K babies,” they say, “they’re….quirky.”
Charity, when she was about 3, commented that “I’m a strange kid.”
I have to wonder what the inside of her brain looks like. I’m betting it’s a psychedelic wonderland, if her drawings tell me anything.
I was a strange kid myself, though, and here’s photographic evidence:
Truthfully, I think I come from a long line of “quirky.” Charity is simply the latest model.
So we had a party to celebrate her first decade. We had cupcakes.
And this little guy showed up with his parents
And my folks came over…
Quirky. Is that the word I used?
It might not have been quite strong enough.
Happy Birthday, Charity. I hope you always celebrate your honest and robust lineage of strangeness!
Charity is an adorable ten year old. Could your grandson’s eyes be any more beautiful or blue?
Happy Birthday Charity! I also describe my Y2K baby as quirky. He is. Not that he’s the only one in our family, but he is the one who got that label. Several of my kids are coughing, and getting a little feverish, I am really hoping that it doesn’t develop into anything worse, like the pneumonia that Mr. Quirky just got over. Hooray for summer.
Happy Birthday quirky Charity!!
Happy birthday to Charity! She seems like a sweetie and she has excellent taste in birthday treats.
My Y2K baby, Sam, is the quirkiest of our bunch. He’ll be 10 next month.
Noshe gussage. Nope. Can’t say it. (Cute pics!)
I really didn’t need to hear that your allergies turned into a Summer cold, now I have to consider the possibility that I too am really fighting a Summer cold & not “just allergies”
Happy Birthday to Charity!!! My Y2K baby will turn ten later this month. I hadn’t thought about her being “quirky” She is our first girl after 3 boys, so I just attributed her differences to being a GIRL….hmmmm.
My Y2K baby was ten in April, and he was reading your post over my shoulder and goes mom, she said transmorgified!!! that’s from calvin and hobbes!!! you made his day, and he is different than all my other children, in a sweet, quiet, yet funny and ironic way, so quirky it is!
Awwww…that’s a GREAT picture of Charity by candlelight(s). Too bad we didn’t have a video of her trying to get enough breath to blow them out. That was hilarious!
I didn’t even realize you had taken pictures of us. Quirky, indeed.
She comes by it honest! Happy Birthdays!!!!!
Happy Birthday, Charity! I have a quirky Y2K baby too. He turns 10 next month. I absolutely can’t believe it’s been 10 years!
I have a Y2K baby too! He, however, is NOT the quirky one in the family, that would definitely without question be our Y2002 baby! I always tell people he is a mix of all the strangest weirdest attributes of both my husband and I rolled in one. Quite the character! Happy Birthday Charity – such gorgeous cupcakes too! (Looks like she may have got genes from grandpop?)
That picture of you is hysterical! Yes, Charity gets it honestly – she is so cute!
Happy Birthday Charity! She is so pretty!
Happy Birthday to Charity! Amos (May 2000 also) is Definately quirky. He’s one of a kind… LOL