Happy Days

You may recall that John was making cake. Well, he finished it…….

We had a whale of a time yesterday at Thomas’s birthday party. In addition to James and Ruth, Danielle’s brother and sister-in-law, the Sleaths were out in full force, including Andrew, who had said when asked if he was coming, “Of course I’m coming. I’m not missing my godson’s birthday!”

Christiana couldn’t make it at the last minute though, as she had been struck down with a tummy bug…….. maybe next time.

The weather was very kind to us and we were able to get out into the garden for some fun. So much fun in fact, that Thomas had me captured in the play house for hours (well, it seemed like hours anyway) with the command: “Stay there….”

Danielle had prepared an amazing table of food and there were plenty of drinks to go round. It was just such a relaxed and enjoyable party – everyone really getting into the celebrations. Thomas, being two, just went with the flow and was quite happy to play, or sit on someone’s lap, or eat the party food and, of course, blow his candles out on the cake – mind you, it was a bit of a race to see who might get there first, him or William!

Everyone had fun bashing the piñata too, at the end of the party, with Danielle being particularly fierce on her go and Thomas coming a close second in intensity. And for a two-year old his aim wasn’t bad at all!

I think it was Freddie who gave the piñata the killer blow and then the children all scrambled to retrieve the sweets. Great entertainment.

The party went on into the evening with the ‘boys’ all trundling off to the pub, but John and I were worn out by seven-thirty and had to come home. We just can’t keep up with the pace these days!! Exhausted, but very happy to have had such a lovely day and feeling very, very blessed.

One happy day was followed by another today. Our dearest friends, Carol and John and Pete and Dawn came for lunch. We threw the windows open, did our Lateral Flows and then relaxed into the day.

I prepped food this morning and set about laying the table. I had to smile to myself though, we had taken the party plates and some glasses over to Michael and Danielle’s yesterday, so I had dive into our stores to see what else I could retrieve. We really do have everything here, even if it doesn’t match…….

We had a really lovely time. As ever, the conversation just flows, the laughter follows and the friendship blossoms. Lucky, lucky us.

Paul brought Andrew home after the ‘night before’ and so we managed to snatch a few minutes chat with them before Paul had to go back to parenting duties and Andrew had to go back to Cambridge. But we were, as always, delighted to have had all three boys together at the weekend. Happy days.

Take care everyone. God bless.