It's Birthday Month Time!

Well I have been a complete slacker on the blog lately. And I'm planning to turn over a new leaf--it is fall afterall! And the biggest birthday month of the year has arrived at the Leonard house! NOVEMBER!!!

Just a quick recap of birthday month (so you all can be jealous that you don't celebrate birthday month at your house)...birthday month was born when Doug and I first got married. When March 1st 1996 rolled around, I proudly announced to Doug "Today is the first day of my birthday month!" Being a smart husband, he looked at me and said "and what does that mean exactly?" I promptly replied "it means you should do something nice for me EVERY DAY this month until my birthday!" And HE DID! I promised to return the favor in November...and I DID! Thus, birthday month was born and it stuck. So, the month of your birthday, the rest of the family does something nice for you every day through your birthday (everyone in our family has birthdays in the last half of the month so it works out nicely).

Well, fast forward to today and 3 kids later and we now enjoy birthday month in March, July, December, and our double-dose month of November. Doug was lucky enough to get the best birthday present ever--a daughter! And we are off to a smashing beginning this November! Only some of the days are actual gifts, many days are nice gestures and kind words. Though yesterday Trevian did receive a small lip gloss from the dollar store for her birthday month. She told me "this is the BEST birthday month present ever!" It may be hard to top...but I did agree that sometime this month she and I would go for our first-ever mom/daughter manicures. That may be better than a lip gloss.