Hello friends and Hivians. I hope everyone is doing well. Today I wrap up my weekend celebrating my son's birthday. A very simply and quite small celebration.
Today marks the 18th year of his existence. A marker which means he is no longer considered a minor by most standards of the law. An age now where he can be fully accountable for his actions. No longer a child in the eyes of many. Although he will always be a kid in mine.
Though it's just a number of his current age I have to talk to him and let him know his actions are taken even more serious now. He has grown up and become more responsible over the years but yet still needs my guidance. Just because our children become this age doesn't mean are parenting is over with. It will continue for a lifetime to the day they give us advice when we get much older and need them to care for us.
They will embark on new challenges and difficulties as we all did when we first opened the door to adulthood. I'm happy for one thing, and that is he hasn't wanted to go quickly and leave the nest quite yet. He's currently a full-time student/athlete at a local college while still living at home. My main goal is to give him the tools and keys to be successful. If I can give him a better start than what I had I have succeeded.
Well I asked him what he wanted to eat for his birthday. I left it open if he wanted to go out as well. He chose his favorite home cooked meal. It includes fried fish, mashed potatoes with Cream of Chicken as gravy and corn. It's always been his favorite since he was a grade schooler. He likes to pile the corn into the potatoes than dip his fish into it. It's his day so I give him his wishes.
A little prep required because the fish needed to be in the refrigerator over night to become unfrozen. I store my fish encased in ice. Doing this gives it an incredibly long shelf life. The rest of the dinner was easy as I just needed some water, some pans to heat up the potatoes, the cream of chicken, and corn. Also a deeper pan to heat up oil to fry the fish. The best thing about all of this is I had all these things at home.
I asked my son if an ice cream cake would be ok for his birthday. He answered yes without much hesitation. Maybe I should have asked what he wanted for dessert, whoopsie. This was the only thing I had to pick up from the store. It set me back $22 and some change for this small 8 inch cake. Now since it's small it will not be enjoyed for days ahead unfortunately, hehe.
I show you his plate and his slice of ice cream cake. He did what he always does dip that fish in the potatoes once he added the corn into it ,haha. He said thank you and mentioned it was really good. I put a small dent in the fish supply but that's good of enough excuse to fish some more right? There ended up being about 2 slices of ice cream cake left over. I will bet money there will be none left over when I get home from work tomorrow. That's ok it's his day and cake.
Well this was a small celebration like I said earlier. So no packed house full of other family and friends. He had a High School graduation party a few months back so many came out for that. They still supported him by calling him and sending him birthday wishes via mail. He had a good happy birthday, it's not the birthday that's important it's the happy part of it, right?
Well I have come to the end of this article realizing our kids just grow up way too fast. Oh where does all that time go? From baby to adult in the blink of an eye it seems.
Take care, stay safe and hope you all have a great week ahead. Until next time!
Happy 18th Birthday to your son. What a special 18th birthday celebration with a home cooked meal. Nothing beats that especially for this kind of moments. He surely had a good day with you and woth that cake hehe. I just can't imagine dipping a fish into a potato, have you tried it?
Thank you he had a good day 😁 I'm not A huge fan of fish with mashed potatoes usually. I'd rather have a baked potato or sweet potato. So no dipping fish in potatoes but I will with chicken fingers or boneless breast, hehe.
Happy birthday to your son @coolmidwestguy. I'm sure you guided him so well.
Thank you...I sure hope so :-)
Happiest birthday to your big boy! He may success in life to make you prouder...
I thought you were eating rice, it's actually mashed potatoes, hehe..
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Thank you hopefully he will continue making me proud. Haha rice would have been a better choice than mashed potatoes with fish but it was his choice.
So you are a rice lover too haha..
I have nothing against it, hehe
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Oh Happy Birthday to your son!!! Kids grow fast! But it is good he is still at home 😊 well here in Spain is quite normal to be even when they are older jajaja (maybe too much), hope this year will be very successful for him! 🤩🙌 And it is good to start eating cake!
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Thanks Amiga only do they grow fast they age fast, jaja. You have a great new week as well
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Happy birthday to your son! A lot of good wishes from me. Don't let him go out too early 😄 make sure he has savings, understands investment and stay away from credit cards 😂. Also,don't fuck around with IRS, more young adults needed to hear this. One thing I learnt about American economy is that you guys have things like 401k and Roth IRA that it could be beneficial to understand all these early.
Thank you for the wishes for him and very good advice that I need to address to him. He's kind of spends as quick as he gets money. The funny thing is that he is going for a Business Major, haha. Oh the IRS, oh yucky taxes but yes pay them and on time. Also by all means file, a lot of young people usually get refunds so I don't understand why some don't do it.
Yes there are things here if you start early with can be very beneficial later. I didn't get on the train super early but got onto to it before it was considered late. Now it may lead to me retiring early 😁 Take care.
If there's one thing I wouldn't want to mess with is the IRS. I have a few acquaintances getting trouble with it and that sends me a signal, just don't fuck with them. Have him check out this youtube channel by Caleb Hammer, it's entertaining and some ridiculous examples on personal finance.
😄 It's always nice to retire early, debt free and you can do whatever you want with the time. I hope you get to do it soon!
Happy birthday to your son and congratulations to you as well, as his father! :)) Parenting is not easy, we have a lot of responsibility for our little ones but as you say it doesn't stop even when they step into this stage. They don't rely on us anymore that much but maturity doesn't come just by turning a certain number of years.
P.S. cool that he has chosen home cooked meal 😊
Thank you so much. Not always easy sums it well, hehe. It's a life long responsibility to us but it can get easier as they gain a certain level of maturity. Oh yes it was nice he chose a home cooked meal.
A simple yet warm celebration :) Congratulations to you for having such a wonderful kid and Happy birthday to him. You're awesome for making him his favorite dish. I'm sure it made her day❤️
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Thank you it was a great time for all of us. He much enjoyed the day 😁
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I admired your parenting style Sir @coolmidwestguy you're such a good father.
Even though your son is already 18 years old, and he supposed to be in his own now, the door of your home is open and always open for him, and you supported him and his dream in life. You're a very good father 😊
And there's more, your son is handsome 😊
Thank you for all the compliments. It's not always easy raising kids especially when they get out of hand.
I wonder where he got all that handsome from though 🤔 haha
Really time flies so fast🫤. Happy birthday to your son. That's so nice of you cooking for his birthday food wishes. You need to store more fish I think😁.
I know time goes by too fast. One minute I was holding him the next minute he towering over me, hehe. I got one decent size bag of fish out of the freezer 😁 I can't add too much than there would be no room for ice cream 🍦😜
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Must leave room for ice cream, otherwise there's no happy hour😛😁
Haha I like that. Happy hour for ice cream. Now I wonder if I will be blessed with a slice of ice cream cake when I get home 🤔 I best not think about it because it's very unlikely. Despite that I will still try to be happy 🤪
Maybe you will come back to an empty container😛. All finished.😂
😂 🤣 As long as it doesn't remain in the freezer to bring my hopes up..
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They grow up way to fast... I know the feeling. Sounds like a great birthday celebration! Time really does fly by.... It really does seem like the blink of an eye.
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It was a nice Sunday time. Cooler weather, a birthday and some football which I didn't get to see a lot. It's ok though because family comes first 🥇
Definitely, its the happy part of how your son enjoyed. Iam sure he should have enjoyed the food cooked by his Dad. Kudos to you. Wishing your son a grand Happy Birthday with good health, wealth and happiness.
Thanks so much. I hope all the same for him as well 😁
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Hey, what a great time they had together, the little moments are unique and unforgettable with our children, despite their age, they will always be our children.
Happy birthday to your son, may God continue to bless him greatly 🥰
Thank you so much. Yes so many memories and they all seem like they all were yesterday, hehe.
That's the best thing about life, every moment we advise you with our soul.
Happy 18th birthday to your son
I wish him more beautiful years on earth.
Thank you for your wishes to him 😁
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