Cupcakes and Ice Cream
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Every year on my birthday, I eat cupcakes and ice cream for breakfast. This tradition is unbroken solely because of my mother’s tenacity and her ability to Facebook-stalk my roommates and friends. This is my first birthday in the city and I’ve been here less than two months and quite honestly I was expecting tradition to be broken. I’m 29 today and I figure at some point this tradition will end…but not yet.
Four hours after discovering cupcakes on my counter and ice cream in the freezer, I don’t know why I ever doubted my mother. This is the mother that found a way for me to have cupcakes and ice cream on my 25th birthday while I was in Afghanistan!Somehow against all odds, she emailed my workout partner, whom I was close to, and convinced him to find a way to not only get ice cream out of the chow hall, but to keep it frozen overnight! I’m pretty sure she mailed him the Little Debbie cream filled cupcakes probably weeks in advance to make sure they got there on time. So there I was, in the middle of Afghanistan, and I had cupcakes and ice cream for breakfast before I went out on a mission. Even when I moved to Missouri after I got out of the Army, she called a guy I had been dating for a few months and got him to keep the tradition alive. I should have known finding someone to do the same here in NYC was totally within her means.
Even with the debilitating sugar rush and crash at ten in the morning, it means the world to me that my mom, whom I love more than anyone and is my absolute best friend in the world, would find a way to make sure this special tradition continues for me, no matter where I am on the planet. It’s this kind of love and support that has gotten me through some intensely tough times and I don’t know where I’d be without her. So thanks, MOM, for being tenacious and resourceful. I love you and all that you do for me and I promise that today I will have a very happy birthday.
(I have to also thank the people that go along with her and play a part in fulfilling this tradition. I wouldn’t have cupcakes and ice cream without them either).
