Birthdays!

It's a friend's birthday tomorrow and I've only just realised. Luckily I had a card which was clearly made with her in mind, so that's ok.

It's my own birthday on Sunday week, 1st November, and I will be 31. My mother will be a bit more than that. I'm hoping for book tokens; for some reason, I got book tokens a lot as a child, and then FOR MY WEDDING which was THE BEST present, but it's not something grownups get much. I like book tokens. Or perhaps Amazon vouchers are more like it.

Linnea will be precisely five and a half on the very same day. We are babies who turn the seasons, us, and we spin them on their way. Each of us grows through the other, and learns as best we may.

... and breathe!

The food arrived!

OMGZ the packaging.

However, it was easy and pleasant - the driver was nice, the substitutions were well-handled, the driver carried everything in and was polite and friendly and efficient.

Now the house is full of food and I feel inordinately wealthy. If I'm not careful I'll go too far the other way and build up huge stocks and hoard again; I've been really good about not hoarding for YEARS now. Like two.

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Almost all the people I was expecting to visit cancelled this morning.

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We had two deliveries for the shared house next door - one pot of flowers, very heavy, very glamorous and exciting, and one incredibly dull-looking Amazon box.

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We made a magnificent chocolate cake with chocolate buttons and raspberry jam.

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Then we ate it - five children and three adults. Then two other adults ate some more of it. It turns out we did have lots of visitors today after all.

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Then we made a roast lamb dinner and a lemon drizzle cake, and three adults and two children ate a small bit of that, too.

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I forgot to do reading with Linnea this evening but I can't imagine it matters. I remembered to call my mother.