5 Days of Birthday Party

I've had a great birthday, all five days of it!

The celebrations began at book group. We usually meet on the first Friday of each month but had to postpone by a week this time. At the end of the book chat we had a little party. The girls had clubbed together and bought me a book voucher and TWO of them had made cakes.

Saturday looked like it was going to be a regular Saturday running around fitting in the washing, taking kids to sport and shopping. About 4pm Steve and Bec rang to ask if we were doing anything that evening. We ended up with them, Marie and her two boys plus Leigh's girlfriend Jess and the boy's pal Harley, Hugh and us five for a BBQ dinner. Bec put together a chocolate cake and we had a birthday party going.

We are still eating coleslaw - I asked Steve and Bec to get some then promptly forgot and sent Ian out for some too. When he came back with only a smallish tub I went out and got more!!!

Sunday was Mother's Day here as well as my birthday but I was up early to go to RFS training. We were doing fire behaviour and weather conditions. We went for a walk to a lookout with breathtaking views and had an outdoor tutorial on bush fire behaviour before going to the grounds of a local high school where we chased the PC which had a hose running from the back - we were mimicking grass fires.

Then, as a Special Mother's Day Treat, Steve let me drive the BIG RED TRUCK!!! I couldn't begin to tell you how exciting that was!

Meanwhile, at home, Ian had donned his pinny and was baking scones and mince tarts and almond tarts, jellies, fruit salad and cake for an afternoon Birthday tea to which Karen, Dan and Ben, Sharon, Janet, Steven and Kate and Joanne came. The others also brought along sandwiches and slices, etc. The table was fairly groaning. We had to go for a walk in the middle of the afternoon to make room for more. The fridge was still chokkas from the BBQ the night before so I'd told them no one was leaving before the food was all gone.

See the Birthday party photos. I'm just sad there's not one of me driving the truck.

Monday I thought I was back to normal at work but no, the girls bought a cake and we had a birthday morning tea.

I was feeling a bit poorly yesterday morning (sore throat, dry cough, bones aching) and nearly didn't go in to work but one of the volunteers has been promising a lemon cake for my birthday for ages so I felt obliged to be there. Good job I made the effort - Jeanette had been up at 5:30am to bake it - and it was delicious. But I did go home immediately after morning tea.