Sounds like a splendid party, sickness aside. The mouse cake is very cute, just like your family portrait. The gift that has always gotten me the most mileage for forgetten milestones is making a hand-drawn coupon book with cute things like foot rub, back massage, breakfast in bed kinda stuff.

My wknd was tremendous, another 3day camping music festival, and fully paid for by the event organizers in exchange for some website and social media coverage of the event. I could really get used to getting free VIP tickets for some media writeups, but I am still on the hunt for some paid writing gigs.