Birthdays galore!

February and March are the birthday months in our house.  4 out of the 6 of us have birthdays within 7 weeks out of 52!

It is amazing to me that I am grown up enough to have a boy who turned 15 this week.  More amazing still is that he is now nearly 6 feet tall!!

I made a chocolate cake for his special day - which tasted better than it looks! Had a bit of a problem which the icing - the giant buttons kept sliding off. However, the birthday boy didn't seem to mind. 

Charlie and Lola are now 8 months old - why is time speeding by? Is that a sign of age too? The weeks are just flying by - can't believe it's nearly March. What happened to January and February? 

Back to the kittens - they love each other as much as ever - as the hug shows. Ahhhh!

like mother, like daughter....

 

Just had to show you this - now I have my new all singing, all dancing Bernina, I gave my (still fairly new) old sewing machine to E.  She has sat night after night, making little bags for each of her brothers. She has appliqued little objects that are appropriate for each one - a shark, a heart, a name, and she has carefully cut and stitched each one with sooooo much love.

It brought a tear to my eye. 

It also reminded me why I wanted a new machine.  Between us, we had to re-thread the machine about 12 times.  She certainly kept her temper better than her mother and it doesn't see to have put her off.  She's now requesting a 'sewing place' and some drawers to keep her bits and pieces in, oh and a pile of assorted material...... I know only too well where all this leads..... and I'm saying nothing.

How lucky am I?

Wow! I have a son who consistently throughout the evening asks me if I would like a cup of tea (does rain fall from the sky?) and tonight, decided he felt like making a carrot cake and would that be alright?

So, here I am, eating cake and drinking tea. 

Oh yes!!!!

PERFECT BIRTHDAY!

One very lucky girl in our house had a ninth birthday yesterday - apologies for this being a day late but got carried away with birthday stuff!

How is this for a 'perfect' day for a birthday?  First, it snowed so much that her school was closed so she got to open her presents leisurely instead of the usual hurried one-eye-on-the-clock that is normal.  

Then she get to make the biggest snowman she has ever seen (with a little help from her Dad).

 Then her mum actually manages to make a cake that doesn't a) burn  b) refuse to rise or c) stay soggy in the middle and (with a lot of help from big brother) it gets iced to look like the Teddy Bear she requested. 

She has all day to play with her new toys and after all this excitement, practically takes herself off to bed on time!  I'd say that was as pretty near perfect a day for a birthday as can be had. x