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"This is how you know you&amp;#039;re a single mother: you have to go and buy yourself a birthday cake because you didn&amp;#039;t last year and your daughter was very upset and built you a cake out of girl scout cookies which you LOVED, but it didn&amp;#039;t matter because she still felt terrible about it. So off I go, to buy a small cake so I have it for the upcoming birthday over the weekend. Anna has already asked me how we&amp;#039;re going to celebrate, and the answer was &amp;quot;Celebrate?&amp;quot; First of all, with my birthday being less than a week after her birthday (and a week after Easter), money is tight, of course. That means no dinner out and no movies, which would be an easy fix for the situation. I&amp;#039;m hoping the weather is reasonable and not freezing so we can go on a hike and maybe pack a picnic lunch or something. Other than that, I have no idea how to celebrate.  Especially since my idea of a good birthday would be a Dwayne Johnson movie marathon followed by multiple screenings of &amp;quot;The Avengers&amp;quot;, with a big bucket of popcorn, a mango margarita, and a drool rag. Not entirely kid-friendly fare. Instead, I&amp;#039;ll ask my kids for the same thing I asked last year: one day without them picking a fight with each other. They were mostly successful last birthday, and it was bliss.  What are some good, inexpensive ways to have fun that aren&amp;#039;t entirely kid-oriented? Anna would see right through it if I pick something that&amp;#039;s more for them than for me. Throw me some suggestions, please! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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