My first born turned 12 years old! My sweet Marin, I just can't say enough about how much her Daddy and I love her and how proud we feel. She is such a wonderful human being, and I love watching her grow up. She is smart as a whip, full of creativity (she has been writing lots of plays and stories, not to mention drawing and crocheting every chance she gets), musical (just started violin), social and responsible. She regularly "babysits" her younger siblings for short chunks of time, and does a great job.
For her birthday weekend, we focused on her "quality time" love language and she actually made a list for us of all her birthday dreams.
On Day 1 we all went sledding at the mountain together, and she and Dad snuck off for a special show-shoe trip, just the two of them. We hit Old Spaghetti Factory on the way home for an early birthday dinner, and she tried a new yummy drink: italian soda!
On Day 2, she and I had an epic "mall trip" (the first time she has ever shown interest in this), where we picked out new clothes, shoes and sunglasses to fit her new 12 year old style. A bit of milestone :)
Then on Day 3, her actual birthday, she ate birthday crepes (prepared by Dad the day before, as he was gone for a biz trip on her big day), went to school and I surprised her at lunch by bringing 6 dozen cupcakes for her and all the 6th graders. The best part of that was the raucous and enthusiastic singing of "Happy Birthday" from all her classmates! Coming home to snacks, gifts, and another dinner out to PF Changs (her fave Celiac friendly place), followed by a Mom-cake (she designed it, I made it... a "pond with lily pads and flowers", even the flames of the candles were green and blue!).
And, after all this I forgot birthday cereal ;) So we had that on Day 4, the day after her birthday. Lucky Charms for the win!
Then, a week later, a birthday party with four of her best friends. Laser tag, yummy treats and nerf gun wars. I could not ask for a better group of fantastic 6th graders for my sweetheart to be friends with. They are a delightful bunch. Good friends are gold!!
Happy 12th birthday, my wee darlin'!
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