What's In a Birthday?

I have struggled with deciding what we would do for Shabd's 1st birthday. Do we go all out and have a huge party...but there are no petting Zoe's to be hired on the island (or so I think).

Who needs a petting zoo, like seriously...he's going to be ONE! We can figure out the petting zoo for another birthday.

Okay...so no petting zoo....hum dee dum...what to do?

Well, I presume as is the custom with the Beekharry family, a big Havana will be planned, with a party thereafter! Oh gosh! Will Shabd survive this? Will I survive it? No! The house is upside down with the renovations...I won't be able to take the stress...neither will Akash cope with me as ek uit gestress is! Hhmmm...back to square one!

If only Dipika was here...she'd have a solution...and the detailed project plan to go along with it!

Replace the words "petting zoo" with any other party idea and the outcome is always the same...not feasible! All the while, the clock keeps ticking away.

So here we are, 9 days away from the big ONE and I'm still not fixed in what we will do to celebrate this momentous day. We've decided to do away with any notions of a big bash...on account of a dire lack of siblings and close friends and family on the island...from my side that is!

We'll ask the dada's and  dadi's of the yard over for dinner on Shabd's birthday...Dipika masi kindly  designed an invitation for us. And we'll take Shabd with his cousin Nayshad to an "animal park" in the weekend.

Is this enough to mark his First Birthday?

I'm working hard at making these two events a success for Shabd...and I'm not sure he'll even remember the great day. Oh well, sometimes it's about the baby and sometimes it's about the mummy!