The Best Birthday Present!!!

Today I gave myself the best birthday present ever: I did something fun for my kids. Jimmy and I took Abigail and Cooper to see Dora's Pirate Adventure Live! in Cleveland. They had a blast. We didn't tell them where we were going and they were both so excited to see that poster hanging in the lobby of the theatre. They had a great time singing and going along with the show; waving their pirate flags and seeing Dora and friends work to have a pirate adventure.

No gift I could have opened would have made me happier than this awesome time with my children. I remembering thinking: "THIS is being a mom." When you don't care that the day of your birthday is the day Dora is live at a theatre near you. When birthday money doesn't buy clothes but buys your daughter and son 90 minutes of excitement. When you're not thinking about it being YOUR birthday, but you're thinking about bringing joy to their sweet faces.

And it's been a while since I bragged on Jimmy, so I will. There were a lot more moms there than dads, but Jimmy wasn't the only one there. But he was on of the few fathers who had fun. Most of the men were too concerned with looking stupid to sing along or get up and dance on dancing mountain or clap along to the music. Jimmy had as much fun as the kids' did, in part because he's a big kid himself, but also because he knew how much fun they were having.

It was the perfect way to spend my birthday.