Oh Em Gee, y'all!

I just realized that it’s my day to post and I have not, because I am stuck in a morass of back-to-school and climbing toddlerhood and Max, my middlest boy, turns twelve today.

I am sorry to fail you like this, so I will leave you with a parting word of advice on how to maintain a healthy diet during a birthday celebration.

Be celebrating the birthday of a boy like this one:

Max, who is a very tender-hearted lion

…who chooses healthy white bean chicken tacos for his birthday dinner, and root beer floats instead of cake. Because I have never in my life been able to frost a cake without generously frosting my tongue as well, but root beer floats? Meh.

Of course, to be celebrating the birthday of a boy just EXACTLY like this one, you would have to come and kidnap mine, because he is fiercely one of a kind.

And you can’t have him.