A few years ago I discovered that for one week each week in May — during precisely the week that is also Kyle and Owen’s birthday week — Starbucks has their annual “Frappuccino Happy Hour Week” (1/2-price-Frappuccinos between 3-5pm). The rest of the year we generally do not, ever, drink frappuccinos. So this week is an annual treat for us — and I always get a kick out of the fact that it happens to fall during K & O’s bday week. Kyle gets strawberries and cream; Owen and I get caramel crunch; Meera goes back and forth between vanilla and chocolate chip. We did it three times this week after school. $8 for 4 frappuccinos — you can’t go wrong! But by the end of the week we are so done with the sticky sweetness, and we are happy to wait another year for it to come again (today 2 out of the 4 of us didn’t even come close to finishing ours). Happy birthday; frappuccinos!