January birthdays

Dear Matthew and Toby,

 

In January we celebrate my birthday and your Ma Ma's birthday. This year on my birthday we had a garage sale with Ma Ma in the morning (and made a total of about $20!) and a family dinner with your dad's side of the family in the evening. Your dad made a yummy pasta dish and salads and your nanna made a lasagna and crumbed chicken. We also had a delicious birthday cake (see photos!) and I was showered with Bunnings vouchers (on request as we're currently renovating our house to get it ready to sell at some point this year) and some beautiful roses. Your dad also bought me some pants I was eyeing off and Ma Ma and your dad coincidentally both got me salad servers. It was a really lovely birthday.

 

 The next day we had dinner with my side of the family to celebrate both mine and Ma Ma's birthday (we are four days apart but Ma Ma and Gumps were leaving for Melbourne for a holiday the next day so we celebrated early). We managed to source a ham at the shops leftover from Christmas and along with a few salads we had a yummy dinner followed by Robyn's black forest ice cream cake. Libby also joined us which was really lovely and Matt you were so happy to see her.

 

It was a brilliant birthday weekend and I was absolutely showered with love from everyone! I have to mention though that some of my favourite gifts weren't physical gifts, including aunty Robyn collecting something from Joondalup for me so that I didn't have to travel that far with Toby in the car as he's taken to crying on long journeys, your dad, nanna and Robyn cooking, your dad driving me to book club so I could sit next to Toby so he wouldn't cry and Aunty Chantel doing the dishes after dinner. These things meant so much to me, much more so than anything as they meant I had a calm, relaxing weekend enjoying myself instead of having an anxiety attack in the car with a screaming baby, running around trying to cook while looking after small children and doing dishes for days afterwards. I hope you remember this as you grow older - the best gifts you can give people are your hands to help.

 

Love you,

 

Mum xxx