Birthday Boy

Today is Joe’s birthday. He turns 8 today and is very very excited by the prospect. I actually suspect this has more to do with the DS lite he is hoping to get - should he get enough cards! Its something he’s wanted for a while and we explained to him that we couldn’t afford to just buy one for his birthday. Lots of hard thinking later he came up with the idea that those who usually gave him a gift for his birthday might like to give him money towards it instead, so this is what was planned.

Now this conversation was weeks ago, and since then he has been been saving all he can. Good lad. Sadly two of his birthday cards have been intercepted and the money removed from them, and whilst the sensible side of me agrees it wasn’t sensible to send cash through the post, it was awful to comfort a little boy crying on his birthday. However a very green penguin (I forgot to buy black colouring!) helped somewhat - that and finally having enough money to buy the said DS of course!
Happy Birthday Joe, xx