Happy Birthday
| July 13, 2016
Photo: Nechama Leibler
My birthday is on 7 Tammuz. It’s a great day to have a birthday as it’s usually warm and sunny out and there are always ripe juicy watermelons to eat for dessert at my party.
Guess when Roni’s birthday is? Also 7 Tammuz! Of course I’m turning 11 this year and he’s only turning 8 so his birthday is always less important than mine. But I don’t mind sharing a birthday with Roni. Ima says that Roni was my birthday present when I turned three. I personally think that’s a lame excuse for a present but I don’t think my mother would appreciate if I told her that.
The good thing about sharing a birthday with a sibling is that your parents don’t mind making a big party and a fancy cake since it’s two people’s birthdays not just one. My mother always says it’s like killing two birds with one stone which sounds a lot more awful than what it means.
But anyway. I think that since this year I’m turning 11 which is one year short of 12 which is really the most important birthday for me there needs to be a big celebration. Like a pre–bas mitzvah. Of course I’m not going to deny Roni his special day too! So I go to his room to inform him of my plans.
“Hey Roni” I say. The door to his room is open but his back is to me. He’s hunched over on the floor busy with something.
Photo: Nechama Leibler
“What do you want?” he says without even turning around.
“I want to talk to you about our birthday party” I tell him.
He looks over his shoulder. “It’s not for another week” he says.
“I know” I say “but if we want it to be special then we have to start planning it now.”
Roni shakes his head. “I think Ima does a good enough job planning our parties on her own. I don’t know why we have to do stuff too. I’m doing my homework now. I have tons of homework. I have mountains of homework. I don’t have time to plan parties.”
Can I ask you a question? Do you know of any other almost eight-year-old kid who’d rather do homework than plan his own birthday party? I think someone needs to take Roni to the doctor because something must be seriously wrong with him. I mean I always hear Ima saying that he “struggles with schoolwork” and I know he needs to work hard but still.
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