A Busy Birthday Weekend - Part 1

       This weekend I had the pleasure of celebrating the birthdays of two lovely people!

       Saturday was Mum's birthday. We kicked off the celebrations with a sunny breakfast at my sisters place, filling our bellies with fruit and croissants (a common birthday breakfast in our little family). The seven of us chatted away as we nibbled on pastries, our conversation eventually turning to funny childhood memories - the time my sister, Steph got a new Baby Born doll, and when I carefully nursed it for the first time, it (somehow) managed to do a little vom on me. And when I was jealous that Steph's Baby Born could go in the pool with us, when my dolls had soft fabric bodies, so I took them in the pool anyway, and then hung them on the washing line to dry afterwards spinning it 'round and 'round and 'round. Funny doll memories.

Georgie was excited to wish Mum a Happy Birthday too.

              That afternoon Jake and I prepared a huge roast lamb for dinner. We warily left it in the oven as we headed off to Jake's soccer game. It was the first time that we had left something in the oven while we were out, and to me it felt like leaving our child at home alone for the first time. However, the difference between a child and a roast is that the roast can't answer the phone when we are checking how it is going. (I'm sure there is other differences between children and roasts as well).

       Jacob's soccer game was a great one to watch, he even scored a goal which he headed in!

       After soccer we rescued our roast (which was doing just fine) and transported it over to Mum and Dad's house to finish cooking. Had a beautiful three course meal, nice wine, and so many laughs I began to feel sick!

       One of the presents I gave Mum was a really interesting book plant. I got it from a cute new florist  called The Octopus' Garden. It is a really unique store and has a lot of great gift ideas.

Part two of our busy weekend to come soon!
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