Not the birthday I would've chosen

Today is my birthday.  It isn't exactly the one I would've chosen, although much better than last year.  Last year we had to attend a meeting at the career school to determine whether or not Robert would be allowed to remain at that school based on some poor decisions.

This year was far better, but to be honest, it didn't feel like my birthday.  I've not opened the first card or present.  Normally, we open things and have cake, no matter how late it is before we are all home together.  That just didn't happen today though.  In fact, my oldest never even wished me a happy birthday.  I worked at the middle school today and while the job was fine, I always much prefer to be at the high school.  It was senior night at school, and I had band responsibilities to handle after school before picking Thomas up from a student council meeting.  By the time we got home, Andrew needed to leave in order to be back to the high school for some football responsibilities.  I took all the kids up later so Catherine and Thomas could play with the band, and Robert could help me with my responsibilities for senior night.  It began misting after school, started raining by the time we got to the football field, and proceeded to rain harder and harder.  I stayed long enough to see our band seniors get recognized, and then I came home.  In spite of my poncho and spending as much time as I could under cover, I came home soaked.  And this is nothing at all that would be considered a warm rain.  It is bringing a cold front with it and it is down right cold.

Robert and Andrew left before the game even began as well because they have a long drive this evening.  Robert has to be 2-1/2 hours away at 6:30 in the morning, so decided last night that I wanted them to go ahead and make the drive this evening and get a motel, so they wouldn't have to leave the house at 4AM.  They left an hour before Catherine and Thomas were finished with band, so there was no opening of anything and not one bite of birthday cake.  It's not at all the worst birthday I've had, but in some ways it felt a little bit lonely!