Family and yearbook27 Dec 2009 12:49 pm

Today is my 35th birthday!

It is raining here, and we just got back from vacation, and my husband is working, so today I took the kids to the grocery store to pick up cake mix and sprinkles and such.  I figured I’d bake a cake, let them decorate it, and my birthday present would be (aside from a cake covered in Swedish fish, marshmallows, kid boogers and sprinkles) a half an hour on a rainy day in which the kids were entertaining themselves.  Also, since my hair is still falling out (postpartum) I picked up some drain-o for the bathroom sink.

You know where this is going, right?   I was with three monkey howler kids, looking tired, buying drain-o and birthday cake mix.  I’m not sure the situation warranted the extreme eyeball I got at the check out line.  Zomg, not taking kids out with poison birthday cake, check-out girl.  Also:  Not sure if I am more disturbed by highly raised Eyebrow of Concern, or the fact that they still let me make my purchases and go on my way.  Way to scorn and not protect.

Perhaps more on our superfantastic holiday vacation later, but the thing that sticks out most in my mind is that my husband went totally mad for taking pictures of me breastfeeding on this trip.

Perhaps it was because of the squeaky sofa bed we were sleeping on did not afford for any sex.  Well, truthfully, it afforded us sex the night we arrived in Anaheim, but the next morning I was a total no sex convert.  I mean, zealous, born-again, still-trying-to-pull-a-spring-out-of-my-ass style, despite my husband’s requests for debauchery.

Or maybe it is because I found myself nursing, standing up, in line to ride It’s a Small World on what turned out to be “A Very BUSY DAY” at Disneyland, at least according to the blinking traffic signs on the highway, and thus I found myself pretty much giving a breastfeeding demonstration to the wandering masses.

Anyway, for some reason, my husband thought it appropriate to shoot a Anne Nipple Photo Montage.  Am debating putting it up, but perhaps when I cut out my face, and the baby’s face, all you are left with is a nipple out on what turned out to be a rather cold day.  Oh, and some shocked looking tourists in line behind us.

But I’ve always kind of fantasized about joining the ranks of being naked on the internet, so now maybe it is my time to shine.  We’ll see.

18 Responses to “Today is my 35th birthday!”

  1. on 27 Dec 2009 at 1:53 pm   crazy8s

    Anne Booby!!! Ha ha ha! Good for you. What do they call it again? NIP- I think that’s right. Anyway- thanks again for the laugh as always.

    I hope you have a very happy rest of your birthday with sprinkles. Happy 35th. I’ll have to post up an entry for you in a bit. Right now kids are chewing through their straps.

  2. on 27 Dec 2009 at 3:57 pm   Stimey

    Happy Birthday! Enjoy your Dran-O cake and internet nakedness!

  3. on 27 Dec 2009 at 4:55 pm   Veronica

    Happy Birthday!

    And yeah, I’ve flashed a few random strangers lately. Kids, aren’t they just great for your modesty?

  4. on 27 Dec 2009 at 5:22 pm   Sabrina

    do it!! snd happy birthday!

  5. on 27 Dec 2009 at 8:46 pm   jean

    Go for it. Better your breasts then mine!

  6. on 27 Dec 2009 at 9:41 pm   adrienne

    Alternate title: Happy birthday, booby?

    I would kill my husband over breastfeeding photos. You are a braver woman than I, but I already knew that.

    Earlier this week, I found this adorable pack of postcard greetings from the 40s that belonged to my grandmother. In the bottom was a list of suggested greetings (in verse).

    (drum roll & kazoo chorus please)

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY
    Can’t watch you blow your candles out,
    Can’t help you eat your cake
    But I have made a happy birthday wish
    For every bite you’ll take.

    ***
    May your next year be outstanding.

  7. on 27 Dec 2009 at 11:56 pm   Geeks in Rome

    Happy boobday!! I mean, birthday.

    Hope the killer cake was killer in a nonlethal way.

    yeah, what was up with yr husband taking titty shots? The only thing I didn’t like about public breastfeeding (and I did it all the time everywhere) was not having the right kind of shirt on that would hide exposing my (small) (sushi-size?) side rolls of fat.

  8. on 28 Dec 2009 at 5:39 am   MidLifeMama

    What is it about being away that makes men randy? During the 12 seconds I attempted breast feeding/pumping if my husband had even THOUGHT about pulling out a camera he would have been vaporized by the death rays shooting from both my eyes and boobs.

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY a day late.

  9. on 28 Dec 2009 at 6:37 am   Jana

    Happy Birthday!

  10. on 28 Dec 2009 at 6:37 am   MariaV

    Happy Birthday!

  11. on 28 Dec 2009 at 6:44 am   Jennifer

    Happy Birthday!!

  12. on 28 Dec 2009 at 9:00 am   Manda

    Happy Birthday! And I’ll pass on the nipple montage but I would LOVE a montage of disgruntled tourist faces at Disneyland. We love playing the penis game at Disneyland just for the looks of shock from people wearing socks with sandals! WHEE ANNUAL PASSES!

  13. on 28 Dec 2009 at 10:40 am   mrs.notouching

    If you can’t flash a boob on the Internet on your birthday when can you? Happy Birthday!

  14. on 28 Dec 2009 at 4:57 pm   kirida

    If people can’t post boob montages on the internet, then what is the internet good for? I mean, I can only play bejweled for so long.

    And I hope you had a happy happy birthday, Anne. :)

  15. on 28 Dec 2009 at 11:41 pm   Lucrezia

    Happy Birthday!

  16. on 29 Dec 2009 at 2:15 am   Shannon

    Happy 35th!!! :)

  17. on 29 Dec 2009 at 7:44 am   JustLinda

    Happy Birthday!!

  18. on 29 Dec 2009 at 10:11 pm   Mr Lady

    A) Happiest of birthdays, my friend.

    B) we see your nipples before your face? You have some strange moral lines, woman.

    C) that is precisely why I love you.