Oh, man, could my family make a list of all my wild things! I think I've repressed a lot of them. Because my son brings it up at every birthday, however, I do remember the time when my son turned 16 and I had two of those candle numbers to put on top of his cake. A "1" and a "6," of course. When I put them on the cake, I put them in reverse order, indicating that he was "61." My husband and son told me I had put them on wrong, but I just couldn't see the problem.

He was joking with me about possibly getting the numbers wrong on my own cake last year. But I said, "No problem!" After all, I was turning 55!