Easy Bake Oven.
When I was little, all I really wanted for my birthday or Christmas was an Easy Bake Oven. My parents refused to buy me one because "our real oven worked just fine" and "the brownies probably taste like plastic" when made with the Easy Bake. Only one problem with that theory: the Easy Bake Oven would be mine. I wasn't allowed to play with the real oven.
As the years passed by and I unwrapped present after present, there was no Easy Bake Oven. I played with my friends' ovens, but that was just like making meals in someone else's home. Not really satisfying.
Obviously, over the years, my priorities have changed. I want different things (although the Easy Bake Oven will always hold a special place in my heart). As I turned 34 this year, I realized how blessed...er, maybe spoiled?...I am. I was able to take a couple days' vacation and enjoy a four-day weekend. On my birthday, my parents came over and had breakfast with me. They brought me a few presents even though I told them that the family cabin re-build was enough of a present for me. Then I went out to lunch and a movie with a good friend (we went to see The Men Who Stare at Goats and were The Girls Who Stare at Clooney). The hubby came home from work and cooked me dinner. Then he gave me THE PRESENT. More on that in a bit.
Friday I had a facial and a massage followed by a relaxing dinner and a movie at home. Today, the hubby took me to a movie (A Christmas Carol in IMAX 3D...very cool) and to my favorite restaurant (where I had the most GINORMOUS, chocolaty desert you could imagine, and I ate almost all of it...seriously, it was a new low...I'm so ashamed).
So back to THE PRESENT. I peeled off all the tape and pried open the box to reveal the 34-year-old's version of the Easy Bake Oven: A Nintendo Wii. I've been wanting one of these since they came out. I can't believe the hubby splurged on this for me.
When I was little, all I really wanted for my birthday or Christmas was an Easy Bake Oven. My parents refused to buy me one because "our real oven worked just fine" and "the brownies probably taste like plastic" when made with the Easy Bake. Only one problem with that theory: the Easy Bake Oven would be mine. I wasn't allowed to play with the real oven.
As the years passed by and I unwrapped present after present, there was no Easy Bake Oven. I played with my friends' ovens, but that was just like making meals in someone else's home. Not really satisfying.
Obviously, over the years, my priorities have changed. I want different things (although the Easy Bake Oven will always hold a special place in my heart). As I turned 34 this year, I realized how blessed...er, maybe spoiled?...I am. I was able to take a couple days' vacation and enjoy a four-day weekend. On my birthday, my parents came over and had breakfast with me. They brought me a few presents even though I told them that the family cabin re-build was enough of a present for me. Then I went out to lunch and a movie with a good friend (we went to see The Men Who Stare at Goats and were The Girls Who Stare at Clooney). The hubby came home from work and cooked me dinner. Then he gave me THE PRESENT. More on that in a bit.
Friday I had a facial and a massage followed by a relaxing dinner and a movie at home. Today, the hubby took me to a movie (A Christmas Carol in IMAX 3D...very cool) and to my favorite restaurant (where I had the most GINORMOUS, chocolaty desert you could imagine, and I ate almost all of it...seriously, it was a new low...I'm so ashamed).
So back to THE PRESENT. I peeled off all the tape and pried open the box to reveal the 34-year-old's version of the Easy Bake Oven: A Nintendo Wii. I've been wanting one of these since they came out. I can't believe the hubby splurged on this for me.
I have to say my 34th year isn't starting out too shabby. I feel blessed to have wonderful friends and family and an awesome hubby. And, I'm proud to say that I can actually beat my hubby in golf for once (if only on the Wii). My modern day Easy Bake Oven rocks!!
1 comment:
Happy belated birthday to you! Sounds like a great start to a great year - esp the beating the hubby at golf part! (And the chocolatey dessert part....mmmmmmm)
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