Hello friends and Hivians. I hope everyone is doing well. Today I wrap up my weekend celebrating my son's birthday. A very simply and quite small celebration.
Today marks the 18th year of his existence. A marker which means he is no longer considered a minor by most standards of the law. An age now where he can be fully accountable for his actions. No longer a child in the eyes of many. Although he will always be a kid in mine.
Though it's just a number of his current age I have to talk to him and let him know his actions are taken even more serious now. He has grown up and become more responsible over the years but yet still needs my guidance. Just because our children become this age doesn't mean are parenting is over with. It will continue for a lifetime to the day they give us advice when we get much older and need them to care for us.
They will embark on new challenges and difficulties as we all did when we first opened the door to adulthood. I'm happy for one thing, and that is he hasn't wanted to go quickly and leave the nest quite yet. He's currently a full-time student/athlete at a local college while still living at home. My main goal is to give him the tools and keys to be successful. If I can give him a better start than what I had I have succeeded.
Well I asked him what he wanted to eat for his birthday. I left it open if he wanted to go out as well. He chose his favorite home cooked meal. It includes fried fish, mashed potatoes with Cream of Chicken as gravy and corn. It's always been his favorite since he was a grade schooler. He likes to pile the corn into the potatoes than dip his fish into it. It's his day so I give him his wishes.
A little prep required because the fish needed to be in the refrigerator over night to become unfrozen. I store my fish encased in ice. Doing this gives it an incredibly long shelf life. The rest of the dinner was easy as I just needed some water, some pans to heat up the potatoes, the cream of chicken, and corn. Also a deeper pan to heat up oil to fry the fish. The best thing about all of this is I had all these things at home.
I asked my son if an ice cream cake would be ok for his birthday. He answered yes without much hesitation. Maybe I should have asked what he wanted for dessert, whoopsie. This was the only thing I had to pick up from the store. It set me back $22 and some change for this small 8 inch cake. Now since it's small it will not be enjoyed for days ahead unfortunately, hehe.
I show you his plate and his slice of ice cream cake. He did what he always does dip that fish in the potatoes once he added the corn into it ,haha. He said thank you and mentioned it was really good. I put a small dent in the fish supply but that's good of enough excuse to fish some more right? There ended up being about 2 slices of ice cream cake left over. I will bet money there will be none left over when I get home from work tomorrow. That's ok it's his day and cake.
Well this was a small celebration like I said earlier. So no packed house full of other family and friends. He had a High School graduation party a few months back so many came out for that. They still supported him by calling him and sending him birthday wishes via mail. He had a good happy birthday, it's not the birthday that's important it's the happy part of it, right?
Well I have come to the end of this article realizing our kids just grow up way too fast. Oh where does all that time go? From baby to adult in the blink of an eye it seems.
Take care, stay safe and hope you all have a great week ahead. Until next time!
