Sorry I botched your birthday...

This is the face of a man in his last year of his twenties.

Dear Husband,

I'm sorry I botched your birthday yesterday.  When we first met, you had very low expectations for birthdays.  Since they were never a huge deal in your family, you just never really got excited about them and I felt like that was a shame.  Birthdays are the one day a year that it gets to be all about you and I think it's something that should be celebrated.  Two years ago I threw you a St Patricks day themed birthday party with our friends and last year I threw a big St Patrick's Day themed dinner with family.  This year, we decided that 2014 has been busy enough and a relaxing day at the beach would be just fine.  Then when the traffic made you decide you'd rather not drive all the way over there, we decided to take Benny out.  Which, it's your birthday, so we can do whatever you want.  But when I failed at that simple request due to my lack of direction and knowledge of where we were supposed to go failed, I felt defeated.  Of course, I had some other plans to make it a little more special and I'm ashamed to say that I let the busy get ahold of me and I didn't get to 90% of them.  I had plans to clean the entire house, but only got to cleaning the bathroom and kitchen.  I had plans to file our taxes and well, that's still on my to-do list.  I had plans to go grocery shopping and fully stock our kitchen considering I haven't been doing that recently and we still have an empty fridge.  I had plans to have you open up a gift and find that watch you've been wanting, but then I forgot which exact one you actually wanted, so I settled for a "you get to buy your watch" statement which is so anticlimactic.  I did get you two cards to surprise you with throughout the day, but the half eaten brownies with the candles on them that I can't even take credit for was a sad excuse for a birthday cake.  I totally botched your birthday this year and I am so sorry.  I will make it up to you soon.  I don't want the busy to control our life.  Thanks for being so positive and selfless this year and every year.  You're the best birthday boy of all time.  

I love you!

Sincerely,

The woman who owes you a birthday.