If it wasn't for my Mother..my birthdays would go unnoticed..isn't it funny when you are the one that supplies all their demands..then they forget that you are standing there too..i told my son it would help a great deal if he would see me as a human first..with all the same feelings..that is when he cut me off and said oh noooo your mama. My mother bakes me a very special cake on my birthday..it is a pain to make, from scratch with ground up unsweetened chocolate in the mix and a wonderful scratch icing. I have had about 35 of those cakes..i take a picture of each one becuase she puts food coloring in it so i get a different colour each year. If i had one now i would send u some! Mom was saying someone else is going to have to learn to make my cake but i told her if she isn't here, the cake would not be the same. That is the biggest part of my birthday now that jim is gone.