Hello Everyone!
That’s right, it was my 38th birthday yesterday! A crappy one, at home, my family is not with me but it was my birthday!! 😅 The truth is I never cared much for birthdays, for me they were always just a regular day, but a regular day part of a week off from work. I always took the first week of May off from work to go to my parents and spend my birthday there, that was the special part I guess, a week away from regular life to be with my family. Of course this year everything was different but it’s an adjustment, just one one more adjustment to the many we had to do already.
The birthday cake looks like it had a car accident (it’s not the bakery’s fault!!) because well… This is the thing, I wanted to go pick up the birthday cake as well and hubby said “no, stay home I will go, there’s no need for you to go too!” I told him (this was two nights ago!) he would mess it up and of course he said he wouldn’t… Guess what?! He messed it up, of course! I can’t catch a break!!! 😂😂😂
I had originally planned to do things a little different yesterday… I wanted to open a Zoom meeting and leave it open for a while so that people could come in and stay for as long as they wanted to chat, it would be a great way to have you all with me on my B-Day but… Well my parents called after lunch, and before explaining this part let me add another detail. I’m an only child but I’m not super clingy with my parents because I moved out at 18 years old for college and after that I pretty much had my jobs, apartments so I never moved back home. But for 16 years we have what for me is a tradition. Ever since my father had his stroke, 16 years ago, my birthday, or my parents birthdays, I always spend time with them.
For example for my B-day I take the first week of May off from work to spend the week with them. For my father’s B-day in February they came here for a couple of days. My mother’s B-day is in June so I also go there for a couple of days.This is our tradition, B-days are spent together. So this was the first year in 16 years that my B-day was not with my parents (and grandparents that are also there). So let’s get back to the phone call! So me and hubby just had lunch at home (of course) and my parents called me! As soon as I heard their voices I started crying, but baby sobbing full blast! 😅 I know, I’m now a 38 years old full grown woman! 😂
But, but, but… That phone call was the wake up call for not being with my parents for my B-day for the first time in 16 years... Of course my mother started crying as well and since we were doing a video chat later that night we didn’t talk for a lot. This interfered with my plans to do a Zoom meeting to see you guys, puffy eyes and Zoom don’t mix! 😅 OR someone arriving at the Zoom meeting and saying “Happy Birthday Patty!!” and me reacting like this:
But I’m telling you this just to share, don’t be sad because I had a great day, all things considered! Thank you for being part of my life even if it’s online! 💗
Happy birthday my friend!!!
Thank you!! You're awesome! 😘
Happy birthday belated. It's your party and you'll cry if you want to. I'm seeing the "parabens" on your birthday cake. Are you a native Portuguese speaker? I'm learning Brazilian Portuguese. For whatever reason, I'm not finding many Hive posts written in Portuguese.
Thank you so much! lol Exactly! Yes I am, I'm from Portugal ;) I thought about adding some posts in Portuguese since we're international, need to take care of that in the future.