DH, half-asleep: "Who's calling this early?"  Me, also half-asleep: "I dunno. I'll get it.... Hello?" "Say tenkyoo." "Mom?" "Say tenkyoo." "Um, ok, thank you. But why? "It's yo bus-day. You know, i'm da one did all da wuk bringing you into dis wuld, so you should be tenking me dis day ebery year."  (Well, ok then.) "Thanks, Mom. Thanks for my birth-day." "You welcome. Happy bus-day, Eh-nee-tah!!"   (Really, who wouldn't love this mad woman I call Mom?) My birthday doesn't start this way "ebery" year but still, ebery so often. This year, however, I wasn't home to … [Read more...]