My grandfather turned ninety this month and, in honour of this, there was a shin-ding this afternoon with lot of people, plenty of food and ample good times. There were plenty of people taking pictures left right and centre, so I abstained but for a select few. I particularly like this one: Good times were…
Tag: Birthday
Once upon a time….
… there was a little girl who loved sheep. One day she asked her mom for a sheep birthday cake and her mom was stumped. You see, she had already made sheep cakes in the past and she was running out of ideas. The mom was looking on The Internet for ideas one day when…
Exploring and Options
One of my (slightly odd) personal traditions is to mark Katherine’s birthday by taking time on my own to wander, explore, think and generally mark the passage of time. After you have kids, you rather forget about your own age until your birthday rolls around and then you generally cringe slightly. With children in your…
Picking up speed
Another year has cycled through and Katherine is nine. It constantly astounds me how time accelerates as children grow. When I watch her now, there’s so little of the baby left and the child fast-disappearing as well; the girl is as much coloured by the adult she’ll be as by the infant she was. Happy…
Dear Nice Lady…
Dear Nice Lady With the Muddy Hands, We would like to wish you… HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MAGICAL MAAIKE!!! And to say THANK YOU for making US! And we have candles in your honour (because the crazy lady forgot to hide the matches again), but no cake because the man that bought the turtles ate it all….
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 