Celebrating Fifteen!

Yes, on this day of prayer and penance, we are celebrating the 15 years that this amazing young man has been in our life. There are 55 million children gone, children who will never see their 15th birthday.  So, we are celebrating the life of this strongly pro-life young man and in our hearts mourning the loss of those who never had a birth day.

A saved banner from year's past and ivy from a box of garland in the garage.

His day began with... decorations! He's not interested in having a theme party anymore but he did ask for a cake made in my Cathedral Bundt Pan because it reminded him of Rivendell. So, being lovers of all things Tolkien, we decided to decorate the breakfast table with our simplified version of Rivendell.

The staff and backdrop were both from birthday's past. The centerpiece was our homage to the Hall of Fire. 

Sean even made a waterfall out of the streamers! Clever man!

And then there was coffee! And then Latin...because today was the first day of his second semester online Latin class, so I couldn't give him the whole day off. His siblings each did one subject in solidarity with him and then we proceeded to have some fun. He had made a request to go to a local arcade and play some games which Sean took the big kids to on Sunday afternoon. He's particularly good at a World War II Flying Ace game proving that he is my grandfather's great grandson.

Today, he just asked to go to the bookstore and use up the rest of a Christmas gift card his godparents had sent him. We brought dinner home (which was his gift to his poor mother since it seems like I am coming down with a cold and have been battling a nasty sore throat all day) and then enjoyed some cake. A six flavor cake! It was supposed to be a five flavor cake but we snuck another one in there! Sneaky little hobbitses we are! Except for The Professor. He's an elf. Totally an elf!

The cake was super moist and delicious but not GF so Husband (the wizard in the family) had some brownies to enjoy instead.

Now I'm very tired and my face is filling up with gunk. Good night.