My Birthday

It was my birthday on the 20th of July. That was the day Aleisa got sick, and we have pretty much had sick kids and sleepless night since. But the day started well. Alesia came in while I was in the shower. The previous night she and Chris had wrapped up a present for me. They had gone shopping together on Thursday night at Hornsby shopping centre. Chris told me that while standing in the toy shop he overheard a father say to his daughter "What are we doing in here? We are supposed to be buying Mummy a present"! Anyway, they managed to find me some presents in the National Geographic shop - which is pretty much a toy shop anyway!

Alesia loves to help open presents. Keira just likes to get into everything. So they both helped me open all the little goodies in the box. I am now the proud owner of a pair of tiny hot pink dophin earings. Alesia is still learning about buying presents that other people might like - not just things that she likes.

My actual birthday was on a Friday. Chris took me out to dinner at a Mexican restaurant he found on the internet. It was a lovely meal, left us really full as usual. We then had gelato and hot drinks at a nearby Italian place. We have no idea where we were as the restaurant was in a suburb we don't know, and we drove there in the dark, so it was like being in a strange city. Aleisa had a temperature when we left, but Sallymae had looked after her and she was asleep when we got home. On Saturday night we had some friends around for soup and pizza. Turns out that my Dad and both my brothers were in Sydney so I even had immediate family at my birthday - something that hasn't happened for a long time. My brother took the photo of the cake above, don't know why he put it on an angle, but you get the idea. Alesia and Keira were both miserable that night, and started the current period of sickness and sleepless nights, so I am starting to feel my age after a week of it! But overall it was a lovely weekend.