birthday

Lordy Lordy Nick is 40! and You Are My Song

 

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Saturday May 6th, 2017, my dear, handsome husband turned 40 years old.  We’re getting old folks.

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The girls and I had a lot of fun coming up with surprises for Nick, who BTDubs is notoriously hard to surprise.  We surprised him with a trip to Perryville, MO to visit his 93 year old grandmother, who, by the way, is still just as sharp as a tack and has a better memory than people a third her age.

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One of our surprises was a song that I wrote and the girls and I recorded secretly in Nick’s studio.  For a few weeks I sneakily asked Nick questions about recording, pretending to be interested in a completely different recording project.  Then, anytime Nick wasn’t home we’d sneak into the studio and get some recording done.  There are still A MYRIAD of things I DO NOT understand about using recording software but I learned enough to put together this song.

So here it is:  You Are My Song  <—– That’s a link! (Duh!) But it’s also down below this cool pic, you just have to scroll a little further down.

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And then there’s the day you shave your mother’s head for her birthday

I’m not the first daughter to shave her mother’s head due to chemotherapy and I won’t be the last. Actually, it was kind of fun. There’s just something about shaving someone’s head. If you’ve never done it, I highly recommend it. I have shaved my share of heads in my day, mostly my husband’s, but once I shaved my own. Having shaved other heads and my own I have to say that both experiences are pretty cathartic.

I shaved Mom’s head on her actual birthday, August 16th and then we went shopping for scarves and hats.  We found a lot of scarves but not many hats because Mom has an abnormally small head for an adult.  She claims it is due to being a preemie.  I have decided to start calling her “Baby Head”.  It’s her superhero alter-ego.  I’ve been trying to think of a good pirate name for her too.  Pirate Nana is good but Captain Baby Head might be better.

She has been really awesome through this whole experience.  It’s nice that we can joke around and make a terrible situation light-hearted and a lot of fun.

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