Happy Birthday Rachel!!

I'd like to wish my youngest daughter, Miss Rachel, a Happy Birthday!! She is now a tenager!! You read that right. A ten-ager! Being the youngest of seven, life can sometimes be hard for her, but she gives as good as she gets! She already had a sleepover for her birthday, and tonight we're having grandparents over for her birthday dinner. She has chosen fried chicken, mac and cheese (boxed is her favorite), rolls, and fried okra (which I convinced her to change to green beans since the chicken is fried). I'm buying the fried chicken from Publix, since I just don't fry chicken for two reasons: I make a mess when I fry it, and I NEVER fail to burn myself!! Operator error! I would like to say that she somehow manages to drag out her birthday celebration. My 16-year-old son asked me the other day, "Mom, how is it that we all have a birthDAY celebration, but Rachel has a birthWEEK celebration?" I'm not sure how she manages it either. But they don't complain too much, because they benefit, too. For instance, I usually take the birthday child out on the morning of his/her birthday to get breakfast, and they've always insisted on bringing it home to share with siblings, which is a sweet thing, really (though much more $). They usually do doughnuts from Dunkin. But Rachel chose Chickfila for her birthday breakfast (our favorite restaurant, bar none), so we all had Chickfila biscuits, and she had two biscuits with sausage gravy. Yuuummmmmm!

So, here's to you, sweetheart! Happy Birthday. I love you, forever and always!!