Birthday Update - Cake, Shopping, Films, Fun, and some mild sickness.

My birthday sort of started Saturday night - Andy and I watched a film! We saw the new Naked Gun and it was funny and reminded me of the old Naked Gun films and how much I loved them as a kid.

We also opened a nice bottle of wine our friends brought us from the States when they visited in 2022.  It's from our favourite winery in Washington - AniChe - and it was delicious even if we could probably improve our wine storing situation.

Unfortunately on Saturday night Aubrey was sick in her crib, so at 1am we did a full bedding change and then went back to bed.

On my actual birthday (Sunday) and the big kids were very excited about the concept of breakfast in bed.  Lily (5) didn't want to sleep late so woke me up at 6:15 asking if it was the morning.  Andy brought me coffee in bed, which he used to do every day before we had kids and oh wow is coffee in bed a great way to start a day.  Then the kids brought me breakfast, which was porridge since Lily recently learned how to microwave porridge in school.  I had a lie in reading until nearly 7:45am.  I can't believe that sort of relaxation was daily before.

Big kids made some decorations to celebrate

I took the big kids to swim lessons, and then got home and had a cuddle with Aubrey definitely wasn't feeling great.  She proceeded to vomit on me, but luckily we had been given a washable fleece blanket and most of the vomit went on that and me rather than the sofa, which is great because washing our sofa is hard.  Aubrey and Clara lazed about on me, the kids made a pirate ship, Aubrey was sick some more, and the birthday proceeded roughtly as I thought it would

Twins went to sleep around 11am (early!) and the rest of us had lunch and then the kids watched a film while I did a Peloton ride.  I had planned some live rides for my birthday (forever chasing the shout outs, still never had one) but there was a big storm in the US and all live rides were cancelled.  Sad!  

After Peloton I took Clara, Ezra, and Lily to a friends house for a play date and dinner. She made Fajitas, which are my favourite, and my most favourite chocolate cake from Anna Jones.

I called my family and then was in bed reading by 9pm.  

On Monday I had the day off work (my work gives "Birthday Leave" which is awesome) and I had planned to go to town to try and buy some much needed clothes.  Aubrey was still not 100% but wasn't being ill anymore, so she had a quiet day with Nora and our Nanny and I took the train to Cardiff.  It turns out, buying clothes is really hard! Unlike the internet, stores don't always have all the sizes of things. Also, it's not like I can filter "Jeans" - I had to look in a lot of places.  Finally I went to the old standby of Marks and Spencers and found two styles that suit me and bought one of each, and then wrote down the size and style for future shopping.

I met up with a friend for lunch which was awesome, and finally went to a makeup store to buy some ilia foundation which I had run out of.  It was my lucky day because the foundation was on sale! So I also bought a Ilia multi stick.  The shop gave me birthday samples and they had a promotion where I could spin a wheel to win prizes, and I spun to the diamond prize which meant I got three prizes, and it all felt very "Birthday"

I went home to finish my shopping list and ordered some more jeans and some sweatpants and vitamins and a few things from Lush as the remainder of my birthday presents to myself.  Yes, 41 is the glamourous year of sweat pants and vitamin based gifts! 

Overall it was not a crappy birthday, which is a weird thing to say when I was actually vomited on, but mostly I'm happy that January is almost over and we are getting 3 minutes of extra daylight every day (if it stopped raining enough to see the sun) and within a month it will be light at 7am which is the right time for the sun to come up (not 8am like it did on my birthday).