Happy Birthday, Michael!

Today is Michael’s something-somethingth birthday! 

We celebrated by sending him to Mass by himself this morning, taking a morning bike ride, going swimming, and playing video games.  Well, Michael played video games – he somehow figured out how to hook up his Nintendo games to our projector, so he could show the kids Super Mario.  He enjoyed it a bunch.  So did they. 

[You may be asking yourself, “How is it that Michael has his Nintendo and games, when Monica is such a freak about getting rid of stuff?”  I’m asking myself the same thing, but it’s Michael’s birthday, so I’m not going to ask him that today.  He’ll probably site the used-in-the-last-6-months clause, though.  And since he used it today, he’s right.]

I made this for his birthday dinner.  It was good.  Michael likes bacon.  And burgers.  When this recipe appeared on the blog last week, I knew that it was what he wanted for his birthday dinner. 

I made this for his birthday cake.  Also good.  But why is some of the recipe in cups and some in grams and some in milliliters?  Mysterious.  I doesn’t make any difference to the taste, though.  I will confess, my creation did NOT look like the picture on the recipe.  

We managed to eat a whole bunch of it despite its looks.

My local sister and brother-in-law stopped in to help later in the evening, too.

I’m so glad that Michael was born!  Happy Birthday, My Love!