Happy Birthday To Me!!!!!

Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me -eeeeee, Happy Birthday to me!!!!

Yep, that’s right, today is my birthday!! I am 36yrs young (in my head that is! My body feels about 72!)  Actually in my head, I am 23 so that makes it even tougher to accept the aching joints and fading memory, not to mention the pure white hair I am finding daily in my red tresses!! So, it’s not really much fun when you’re a grown up and your birthday falls on a week day, and there are kids to get to school, & kids to get to a variety of  playgroups  and preschool sessions & kids to get to after school clubs. It’s business as usual! Did get some nice cards from the kids & the other half, and the promise of a Marks & Spencer Dine In Meal, cooked for me and presented with a nice glass of wine once the rug rats are in bed!

It might be just me, but there is just nothing exciting about anticipating a birthday anymore! The day always feels anticlimactic & for some reason I always feel just a tad let down. Which is crazy, I know. What do I expect? A full on Space Hopper party like I am planning for Finn next month; a house decorated like a kids tv programme like Archie had last month – I dunno. I guess it just feels like I am forever planning other’s celebrations and going all out, but am never on the receiving end. However! I must state that the other half has been asking me for the past fortnight “what do you want to do for your birthday?” to which I have consistently & unequivocably replied “I dunno!”. So, I can hardly blame anyone or anything for the lack of festivities really. If I wanted a party, I should have said “Throw me a party!”. But actually, I don’t think I do want a party!  See the problem!!  So instead the other half took me shopping to a local mall at the weekend and I got a few nice pretty dresses, shoes and bits & pieces – just have to organise a night out to wear them, lol!!!

My lovely school mummies festooned me with flowers and chocolates today (obviously the diet & fitness regime won’t start for a few days!); and my lovely friend of 25 yrs(yikes!) came round this afternoon and brought lunch with her – which was great! She also brought a Caterpillar B.Day cake for me – you know the kids chocolate swiss roll types!

This is all that remains – the littlies can finish him off tomorrow.

He was delicious!

So, before I knew Anji was coming to see me avec cake, I had made my own. Yeah, what’s wrong with that picture – lol!! Inspired by something I’d seen on Ace of Cakes tv show (OMG!!! Am so addicted to it!), I had a go at decorating a cake with a bird silhouette. And to be fair, I am really chuffed with how well it came out! And yes, that is a lovely, pretty, gorgeous, lovely new cake stand!!!

Bird Blossom Cake

Oh & Archie came out of his playgroup with a birthday card that he had “made” for me. The girls had done it and chased him round until they could put a paint loaded stamp in his mitts and wave a piece of paper in front of him!! I don’t care – I have it and it did bring just a few tears to my eyes!!

So, that brings a close to my day… just waiting to win the new £85million Euro Lottery tonight! Figured a bit of b.day luck would be in order! Off now to scoff my M&S dinner and drink my Rose wine. Bye xx