This Friday Wayne hits a milestone: 40.
Here’s what I had envisioned for his big birthday weekend:
• Sabotaging the house the night before with balloons, streamers, banners and whatever other birthday decorations I could come up with so he’d wake up to birthday chaos.
• Making a special breakfast of some sort.
• Making his favorite dinner.
• Making sure to have whatever desert he wants after. (He’s got a sweet tooth almost as bad as mine. However, where I’m predictable when it comes to cakes –give me chocolate!—he’s not so easy. He’s got a ton of favorite desserts, so the trick is wrangling out of him which one he’s craving most.)
• Renting a Hummer limo and taking him for a night out to a comedy club. (He’s made comments in the past about how he’d buy a Hummer if we ever came into money to do so, and he loves to laugh so…I figured why not put them together and do it up big for his 40th?)
• Renting one of those gigantic inflatable water slides and inviting friends over for a water slide barbeque birthday bash. (Wayne is my little fish. He loves swimming and he loves fun, unique things, and this is something he’d most definitely get a kick out of.)
Why most of the above plans have had to be thrown out the window:
• Wayne took a new job in Jacksonville, leaving me behind in Nashville until the house sells.
• He will be home for his birthday, but not until that night. I can make it a birthday weekend and have breakfast for him the next day, but not on the actual day.
• Because our house is for sale and showings are unpredictable, there is no way I could host any kind of party, much less have a 20-foot tall inflatable slide in our backyard. (Having to postpone a showing because we were half-naked with our closest friends in our backyard would not make Wayne happy. He wants this house sold and that wouldn’t be helping to accomplish that.)
• I sort of surreptitiously –-without exactly revealing why I was asking—- ran the idea of a rented Hummer limo by him. And the comedy club. Ixnay on both. I forgot about the drink minimums at the comedy club (we’re not drinkers –two would leave us both sauced), and he said that he’d never rent a Hummer limo because it’s way too cheesy and something “kids” do.
Yikes. I really wanted to celebrate his 40th in style, but… Now I’m at a loss. Here’s what I’ll probably do instead:
• Still sabotage the house. He’ll just discover it that night instead of first thing in the morning.
• Still make his favorite dinner and have dessert.
• Hit the Greek Fest, which will also be going on that weekend. We both love Greek food so… That’ll be where we have our party!
His 40th may not be the blowout I’d first envisioned. There’s always 41. Besides, he won’t be expecting it for that one.
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