Birthday!

Yippee! It's my birthday. I got home this morning and caught up with some sleep. Then I went to Altrincham and had a lovely lunch out (other than getting 'customered' very briefly as a load of people were up for training and taken to the same pub we were in) with Mark and the rest of the team.

After lunch I went into Altrincham to pick up my lovely necklace that Mark bought me for my birthday. Only it hadn't arrived :( but they phoned me half an hour later to say it had appeared!

So I picked Tully up from school and we whizzed back to collect it (not much fun for her though). It really is beautiful.

Then off to get Harry, home for birthday cake, a take away and a DVD. Not that exciting to some people maybe, but it was just lovely to be home and with my family. XX

My birthday

This evening Mark and I had our first evening out since Harry arrived! We went into Manchester and had a lovely meal in Chaophraya. Yummm! I should have birthdays more often...

My birthday!

Blimey - I'm feeling old. 33 today - booooo!

Birthday Break

I had grand plans for my birthday this year: I was finally going to go to Rome! I've been wanting to go for years and year and just somehow never quite got round to it. I'd even chosen which hotel we were going to stay in and was just finalising which dates we were both free to go, as well as which days my parents were free to look after Tully...

The more perceptive of you may have spotted the use of the past tense above! Well, Mark now has to go to Seattle the week before my trip to New Orleans. His flight lands just 3 hours before mine leaves. If all was well and good this ought to just about give us enough time to meet at the airport and hand over parental responsibility.

But it is a little close for comfort, and even assuming that there were no flight delays poor jetlagged Mark would be sole parent from 9am Saturday morning and have to survive the entire weekend looking after the monster haivng come stright off a 17 hour journey and an 8 hour time difference. After much cogitating, Mum and Dad have been enlisted to help. Now, I know they'd be more than happy to look after Tully again just a couple of weeks later, but even I think it would be a bit mean of us to go and leave her again so soon afterwards...

So now, do we take Tully to Rome or plan something else? I've had mixed reviews of Rome with small children - a couple of people say it's really not good for someone her age whilst others have taken their little ones and said it was good. Either way, when it came down to it, neither Mark or I have ever fancied the idea of sharing a hotel room with her and have actively avoided it... Where's the fun in having to go back to the room around her bedtime, and sitting in the dark with the tv on quietly waiting for the morning to come when we can have fun again. Very little if you ask me.

So, a bit of a leap here, but we've booked to go to Centerparcs at Whinfell Forest. Still, despite the change in direction of the choice of weekend break I'm quite looking forward to it...

Birthday Weekend

It was my birthday on Monday, and to celebrate we went away to Shropshire with Jonny and Mandy, and Stu and Amy. I had lots of fun, but it has to be said that far too much of the weekend was taken up with playing Warioware: Smooth Moves on the Wii than can be good for anyone! Very funny, although unlike PS games it gets significantly harder as more gin in consumed... Here's Jonny admirably demonstrating the Mohawk form. Probably best not to ask... :)

Birthday plans!

I know, I know - it's ages away yet! But I fancied havig a weekend away with friends, which means I need to get them booked now! (Our friends seem to be incredibly busy these days - I find it hard to believe we ever had so much of a life even before Tulster!)

So, I've booked to go here for a long weekend, along with Jon and Mand, and Stu and Amy. I don't think it might be a bit too chilly to use the pool though!