It was my birthday recently and I gotta say, it's great to have a three-year-old in the house when you celebrate your birthday. I was wished “happy birthday” all weekend, got sung “happy birthday” to several times and was encouraged to indulge in all kinds of birthday treats. If only we could get that enthusiastic about our birthdays rather than considering them as just a reminder that we are getting older. One of the things my daughter insisted that we do that I happily went along with is make birthday cookies. Sounds like the beginning of a wonderful new tradition to me. And she insisted that they be chocolate (I must be doing something right!).