Today Justin turns 40. We have been joking about this day for a few years. It’s a running joke that I am 9 months older than Justin. So me being in my mid-30’s before him was ‘oh so funny’ to him as was each year that passed after that as it just meant I was closer to 40 than him. Even though we have been nearing 40 the last few years, it still seemed like a distant milestone until all of a sudden it wasn’t. We are both officially 40…both officially Yung No Mo!
In February, Justin and I decided to go to Charlottesville, VA just the two of us – we were going to stay in a cute cottage slightly off the grid. The girls were going to stay with my parents and Justin and I were going to have some quality down time together. We cancelled last month when we realized we were going to be celebrating his birthday in quarantine.
While it wasn’t my birthday and the plans weren’t what we originally anticipated, I think it was a great low-key birthday celebration if I do say so myself!
We kicked off the celebration on Friday when Justin woke up to a massive Happy Birthday sign in our front yard. It came courtesy of Card My Yard and since they were sold out for Saturday, I figured starting the birthday celebration on the 8th was perfect!
It was a rainy day, but we managed a few pictures and a walk in our neighborhood in between the rain. 
Saturday morning was like Christmas morning. Bacon in our family equates to Christmas and we had bacon! Not only bacon, but also sausage, eggs, fruit, and lemon muffins. We leisurely ate and enjoyed the delicious food and each other’s company.
Presents followed breakfast. Several shirts were in order as were socks, two koozies, a Golden Girls journal, and a homemade Top 40 card with a Chinese Proverb Yung No Mo that had us hysterical all morning.
The weather was cold today…only around 50 degrees and cold, but there were pockets of sun among the winds and we still took advantage of mother nature with an hour long walk and then a short bike-ride in our neighborhood.
Since we ate a big breakfast at 10:00 a.m., we turned breakfast into brunch and skipped a real lunch. Instead we surprised Justin with a Ben and Jerry’s ice-cream sundae bar for lunch. The girls thought it was totally nuts. It was delicious and fun and so wonderful not to have to make a real lunch for the first time in months!
Brophy and Donald stopped by for a few socially distant driveway beers…an event that if you indicated would be the way they would celebrate together several months ago, I would have thought bummer, but with reset expectations, it was truly wonderful to visit with them…despite the fact that they couldn’t even come in to use our bathroom and had to pee in the woods.
We were going to do dinner in two parts. First an oaky bottle of Pinot Noir and a charcuterie board with cheeses and salamis that I got from Oakton Wine Shop and Caboose Brewing coupled with a whole wheat boule that I made! A combination of the wine, the massive amounts of cheese that we consumed, as well as the thought of not having to clean up a bunch of dinner dishes, made us realize we should turn our charcuterie board into dinner. 
There was no need for a second part…the shrimp and New York Strip would wait until tomorrow.
With full bellies, we had family fun in our make-shift photo booth. Look at this guy…turning 40 and all has made him turn furry!
Justin’s expression in the last picture sums up how his birthday ended! We went on a quick after dinner walk in the brisk May cold after our photo booth session and then Justin capped off the night with a few outdoor social distance drinks with a neighbor. Yung No Mo had a great birthday and I think it is “safe” to say, it was one like no other.