DH, half-asleep: "Who's calling this early?"  Me, also half-asleep: "I dunno. I'll get it.... Hello?" "Say tenkyoo." "Mom?" "Say tenkyoo." "Ok, thank you. Why?" "It's yo bus-day. You know, i'm da one doing all da work so you can be born, so you should tenking me 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 answer that call. Know why? I was … [Read more...]