Today's my mom's fake birthday

Until I was about 10, I thought my mom's birthday was July 9th. No, I'm not LD. It's because she TOLD me it was her birthday. All of us. And every year we'd get her presents, buy her cakes and sing her songs as if it was her birthday. Until one day when she tells us her birthday is actually September 9th and never mentions it again.

Oh yeah, and she also used to sculpt us cakes made of rice garnished with spinach on our birthdays. Yeah, I had to teach myself how to birthday.