Our Birthdays

Our birthdays are coming up, and for those of you who don't know, R and I have the same birthday. Makes it hard to come up with an excuse when you forget your spouses big day, but that never happens, right?

It's also an annual rite of passage for my mom to let us know she doesn't like us by completely and blatantly ignoring us. It's her way of reaching out and slapping us, something she loves to do since we don't talk on the phone too often.

Whatever be the case, we have been so busy and haven't given it much thought, and as result, we were late in planning our annual rite of passage and were subsequently shut out. We usually go to Franconia every year and stay at the Franconia Inn, a place we love. They know us well, and even commented on how we'd visited every year for the past 7-8 years, but not this year. When I called, they were completely booked. Can you believe they didn't hold a room for us? The nerve.

Now we have no plans. We're not sticklers for our birthdays, but this has been a particularly trying summer with dumplings and all, so we wanted to do something fun that did not in any way involve dumplings. We blew it, however, by waiting too long, and now our options have dwindled. At the very least, we won't make dumpling on our birthday, but we sure as heck will the day before and the day after.

Until then, thanks for reading, and thanks to Lisa for the pic.