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birthday…

18 Tuesday Apr 2017

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today is my birthday;-)…

I love birthdays, mine and everyone else’s… I like presents too… they don’t need to be big or expensive… 

I enjoy the birthday song being sung over the phone, or in person, or nowadays by text… when my kids were little I’d sing it to them the number of years they were turning… eventually you can’t sing it enough times in the day, lol.. 

last night my BS friends brought birthday cherry pie and presents… so this morning I enjoyed the last piece of the pie with my breakfast…

I’ve never been a cake lover…

busy at work but there was time to spend with visitors, who also brought treats – chips and a lovely purple water bottle… and answer some of the birthday calls and texts that came throughout the day…

purple tipped flowers from my colleagues with a fun balloon and card… one of our traditions is to circulate a card that everyone adds comments to for the celebrant… always a gift to read the kind notes included…

was going to order from SkipTheDishes but made leftover turkey dinner instead, one of my favourite meals…

then had a treat, lol…

had some loose tea in my new left-handed the wall tea cup… works really well and the tea I’d picked up recently at one of the Farmers Markets is delicious – it is similar to one of our all time favourites that was discontinued a number of years ago… and chips with two types of chocolate bars – my favourite Aschenti Cacao 79% with Sea Salt, and one of the bars we picked up in Mazatlan – a Ritter bar that had rum, nuts and fruit in it…

I mean, I’d been good all day, and it is my birthday, lol…

thinking back to a delicious piece of chocolate cake we found and shared by the Flatiron building in New York last year on my birthday…

really was one of the best pieces of cake I’ve ever eaten…

a great day to be alive…

collages…

27 Monday Mar 2017

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lovely evening with my ReImagining group tonight…

we haven’t met for the last few months as weather and other activities intervened…

been carrying around their Christmas gifts in the trunk of the car in my favourite purple bag, lol…

these are the last few which weren’t chosen…

supper was Irish stew with mashed potatoes… so good and the potatoes were a wonderful treat…

and then there was dessert…

we got to make collages and talk about Spring plans…

wonderful evening…

cake…

06 Monday Feb 2017

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could barely drag myself out of bed this morning… was so tired… 

really finding that I need that one do nothing day in the weekend to recover from the week…

cooked a small roast and baked a potato which gave me an hour to rest when I got home… finished off with a lettuce salad… good thing it was easy because I am still tired…

two of my Monday night friends came by and one brought a delicious bit of cake for us to try… chocolate with a lemon sauce and some whipping cream…

I licked my plate…

apparently I looked so bad they only stayed for a little while so I could get to bed, lol… I was cold and had to dig out a warm jacket… the others thought it was warm in the house…

hoping that a good night’s sleep will fix me up… really don’t have time to be sick…

birthday…

07 Sunday Aug 2016

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quiet morning watching Olympics… just as well as I wasn’t feeling too great…

drove to my daughter’s after lunch for the birthday party for the nearly 16 year old… 

getting much better at making the drive around the Perimeter… of course, it helps that it was bright and sunny… 


beautiful day and we were outside, which was great, because there were a lot of people there, probably around 30…

they were everywhere, visiting and playing… caught a group of friends and cousins playing a water bottle game in the garage… kept them entertained for easily forty-five minutes…


always a high point when the cake comes out… no candles, as requested by the birthday boy, but we did get to sing, lol… he cut the first piece… a tiramisu cake from Baked Expectations…


he looks like a man now, and some say he looks like George…

when I got home I added water to the pond and spotted a baby fish… will have to sit out and see if I can spot more of them…


lovely way to spend a Sunday…

pictures…

18 Friday Dec 2015

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my girl is home for a few days… yay…

we’ve been taking pictures since she arrived…

first ones were of the Deadly Chocolate Mousse cake from Baked Expectations… her favourite… my other daughter had picked it up and delivered it to my office for me… she wiped out but thankfully both she and the cake were fine…

  
she took quite a few of the Christmas trees and I took a few of her taking pictures, lol…

  
I also got a few of the beautiful hydrangea arrangement that a dear friend had delivered to the office this morning…

  
pretty wonderful day for me…

to top off the day we had beef bones from Tony Roma’s, another of her favourites… not exactly the best thing for me, but a treat now and again is fair…

lots of visiting and catching up and now we are heading out for a hot tub… it is wonderful to have the company out there and she loves it as much as I do…

holy days…

five!

02 Sunday Feb 2014

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today the littlest guy turned five… can’t believe it… his mom is away on a trip right now, so the guys were having a boys fun weekend…

we chatted on FaceTime this morning at which time he advised me that he wanted homemade hamburgers and salad for supper… our family tradition is that you get to choose your dinner… all very nice except his daddy and I had been planning ham for dinner, lol…

they came over just after lunch time and he, his daddy and I went shopping for the birthday dinner ingredients…

riding under the grocery cart...

riding under the grocery cart…

 

he decided he was riding underneath the cart, and seeing as it was just the three of us, we didn’t complain, and his method of travel brought smiles to the faces of most of the people who passed us, lol… 

 

birthday cake...

birthday cake…

 

we spent quite a bit of time in the Bakery section while he examined every cake and finally made a decision… based completely on the strawberries on top…

once we got home all the boys headed out for a birthday hot tub and I started working on supper, although Jeff had already made the burgers… the interesting thing about all of this is that the little guy has been going through a no meat phase…

birthday dinner...

birthday dinner…

we had barbequed burgers, with cheese and lettuce, homemade French fries and salad… the French fries were definitely not up to Grandpa’s standards and we discussed what he might have done differently that made his so good… our other special treat was chocolate milk that we picked up while we were out…

then we had the cake, which looked way prettier than it tasted, lol…

here’s what I wrote last year on his birthday…

this year I was thinking about the turmoil in my work situation when he was born, and how within weeks of his birth I was out of work… at the time it was tremendously stressful… although, had that not happened, I wouldn’t be working at the wonderful place I am now..

ups and downs in the journey…

Christmas Day…

25 Wednesday Dec 2013

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lovely day…

cake for breakfast, followed by a drive across town for presents… and there were lots and lots of them…

return trip home, and a short nap… then we prepared for our dinner and the kids arrived… took a picture of the table all set and ready…

games played while dinner cooked… Jeff arrived after working a 12 hour shift and we had our dinner…

with full tummies we watched as he opened his gifts… then it was home to bed for them and a quiet night of
movies here…

the big kids are already fast asleep… so dark that I couldn’t find the laptop to write this, lol…

made it through another Christmas without my beloved…

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Birthday party…

03 Sunday Feb 2013

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today was Gray’s birthday party…

couldn’t catch a ride with anyone so drove myself there and back…  doesn’t seem like that big a deal, but I needed those big girl pants…  first time I have gone over there, in the car for a birthday party, without George…

amazing how I was missing him today…  I have pulled a muscle in my arm and some movements really make it hurt…  I haven’t been doing lots of driving so was a bit worried about my reaction time if there were any problems…

on the way there I watched a truck back up at a light and just about hit a woman who was walking behind it…  a little further on the car in front of me stopped quite suddenly and I skidded on a patch of ice when I put on my brakes…  need to remember to pump them…

so, I wasn’t looking forward to the drive home in the dark…

examining one of the many presents...

examining one of the many presents…

the birthday party was great…  there were lots of people, presents, food, cake and cupcakes…

lots of yummy food...

lots of yummy food…

when the cake was cut, I headed out…  the drive wasn’t too bad, although I was gripping the steering wheel rather nicely, lol…  both the car and I were happy to drive into the garage…

cake and cupcakes...

cake and cupcakes…

had something to eat, watched some TV and am now heading to bed early… been a long day…