The time has come for Big Birthday Weekend. We depart this afternoon for the hills of Southeast Iowa to begin the celebration.
What is Big Birthday Weekend? Well, it started as the celebration of three birthdays and then expanded to cover Mother's Day as well. A few years ago, it expanded to include a several more birthdays. The grand total is now five (six when the extended family can come) birthdays and several mothers worth of Mother's Day.
It is a pretty quiet and low key celebration that takes place over the course of the weekend. There is usually some cake (angel food--one with nuts, one without, or half-n-half), and the food is never the same but always good.
We also tend to spend some time hunting mushrooms. Some years we spend more time than others. The last two years the ticks have been so bad that we didn't go as far or as long (note: ticks like dark colored clothing--especially black sweatpants...I'd always worn jeans before and will NEVER make that mistake again).
If it is warm enough we sometimes go to the local ice cream shop. It's super good and super cheap! Having grown up with such places I'm still in sticker shock at a Dairy Queen. Also the local ice cream shop would never tell a customer that they couldn't make a dip cone out of anything larger than a medium...and they make sure the coating covers ALL the way down and over the top ledge of the cone so you don't have any leaks (VERY important for customers of all ages--especially this one).
No matter what we actually end up doing this weekend, it will be a good time. It isn't anything that some folks would find exciting, but I enjoy the good, clean, relaxing fun of doing all the spring things I enjoyed as a kid in one family-filled weekend.
Hope you all enjoy your weekend!
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Glad you had a blog-worthy weekend! ;) Sounded like fun to me!
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