A BIRTHDAY KISS . . .

. . . from Alice? Not this year, she'll only kiss the air!

Today I'm halfway to 70. I used to love my birthday but 4 years ago, 2 days after my birthday, my Mum died very suddenly, ever since then I've found my birthday a very difficult day to get through, I hoped that this year (with Alice in my arms) it might be different, unfortunately she couldn't take away the pain. I don't think my birthday will be the same again. I've cried more tears for my Mum today than in all the days since Alice came home, it's hard on a day like today.

Alice had more inoculations on Monday, she felt the effects today - she's been clingy and whingy (not just when I left her). By teatime she had a temperature, so she had some of the wonderful pink medicine, within 30 minutes the usual Alice was back, now I feel guilty that I hadn't realised earlier that she must have been feeling so rotten - T missed it too!

So how did I spend my 35th birthday? A slow morning with a surprise visit from a friend, followed by aqua (thanks for the serenade girls!), an afternoon being pampered and supper with N. Lots of phone messages and a few cards from people who delivered them - I had post but no cards (I wouldn't have thought about sending a card early last week either, so apologies to L [1 today xxx], C [34 tomorrow] and J [35 on Saturday] as your cards will be late too!!

Just to add to the events of the week - I've just heard that my friend K (who we visited on our way up to W and J) had a baby girl at lunchtime, a planned C-section and (even though she wouldn't share the planned date) I had a feeling it might be today. Delighted, a little girl to add to a lovely family - what a great ending to the day!