Party Like It's Today

Newsletter 2018-11-11

Party Like a Waffle

Waffle has always known how to get what she wants. Her older sisters have to share a birthday party because their dates of birth are clustered together. Mae was born exactly two years and one day after Betsy, and Lucy was born two years and two weeks after that. But Waffle was born a mere seventeen months after Lucy—and in the fall instead of the spring—for reasons that were totally planned and not at all unexpected. She was doing things her own way right from the start.

That means Waffle gets her own birthday party all by herself every year. We don’t have a choice. Try as I might, I can’t justify attaching her birthday to the triple birthday party earlier in the year. Calling it a half birthday seems like a shameless gift grab, and skipping her party all together would just give her more issues for therapy later. Our only alternative is to throw one celebration just for her. She knew what she was doing when she went rogue and was born off schedule.

And, no, we can’t …