Seven

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This past week, Domino turned 7. My goodness - where have the years gone?!

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In the past, Domino's birthday has been a huge affair. For his first birthday we invited our friends and family - and announced he was going to be a big brother. Other years we've had jumpy tent house parties, bowling alley parties and invited classrooms full of children. We have spent hundreds and hundreds of dollars on birthday parties (more specifically EACH party), and I have spent endless hours planning everything from the theme, the homemade invitation, the food, the presents and of course "the perfect goody bag". Birthday parties in our house are typically a 2 day event - one party day for family and another for friends.

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This year was way different. We couldn't afford to throw our usual "invite his entire class" type party and instead opted to just have just a family party. I was very concerned how Domino would react to this major downsizing and was surprised at how agreeable he was.

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All in all - it was a nice birthday. I worked in his classroom for the day and got to witness the special birthday dance, celebrated his day with his classmates sharing his favorite lemon cookies and lemonade and then we went to dinner at his favorite "TR2". We had our immediate families over on Saturday for a nice lunch and cake and cozied up with a good DVD together that night. It was really all we needed.

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I love you Domino. You are growing into such a wonderful young man. You have changed my world completely and I can't imagine how I lived without you in my life.


xoxo,
Mom