quarter of a century

Well, That is me quarter of a century now. Yesterday was definitely a birthday to remember, unlike my 18th or 21st, which I can't really remember, okay I remember having a pig cake on my 21st and I was pregnant with Donald on my 18th but that's all.

Yesterday I wore 2 badges, 1 that read 'It's My Birthday' because it's important to me that the world know it's my birthday, and 1 that read '25, quarter of a century' because alot of people Don't believe I'm that young, in fact if it weren't for my birth certificate saying february 17th 1986 I would probably believe my mother skipped a few of my birthdays.

I dressed up in the new red dress and shoes my husband bought me and I wore JML slimming pants underneath because when I wear a dress I look pregnant. they were quite uncomfortable but worth it because I looked nicer, not that pregnant's a bad look for me, I just didn't want people stopping me to ask how far along I am and having to explain that I'm not!

First we went to my grans house, and shared some cake with my gran and granda, William cut such thick slices though that I was feeling quite full and regretted eating cake before lunch.

It was a long journey to braehead because my husband had his battery changed and forgot to get the code for the radio before we left the house, I bought an album from the t-mobile jukebox for my phone but I couldn't download the songs right away so it was no use.

When we finally got to Braehead we went to elc first to pick up a dinosaur CD for donalds birthday party because the one we had somehow got scratched and kept skipping. while there we noticed Happy Land toys were on sale, so bought some things for Joy's birthday.

Then, we went to TGIF, the kids got their goodybag and balloon which kept them quiet for most of the time. William got a free milkshake and I got a free smoothie thanks to a voucher I got from their website when I signed up to the birthday club. I ordered a 3 course meal for £13 mozzarella sticks for starter, chicken tenders for main, and brownie for dessert. William just had wicked chicken which also cost £13! I tried to get them to help me with my starter because it was quite a big portion but they didn't help much at all. I struggled with my main, and gave most of my chips to Teo. I kept checking the time, worried that we were going to miss Yogi Bear. we decided to get Desert in a doggy bag to take away so we wouldnt miss the film but it was still taking too long. as we fretted and kept looking at the clock, waiting for desert and the cheque the waiter came back with a chocolate fuge cake with a candle in it and asked me to stand. he asked my name and how old I was and then asked the whole restraunt for his attention and announced my birthday and with the help of some other waiters sang me a Birthday song! I was absolutely delighted! I had never had so much attention on any birthday ever, I absolutely loved it, It just made my day! I blew out the candle and they put the cake in a doggy bag along with the brownie I had ordered (if I knew i was going to get free cake I probably would have just went for the 2 course meal for £10)

At the cinema we asked for tickets to see yogi bear and they said which showing? we said now and they asked 3d? we said no. they said that the 2d started at 2:45 and relief washed over us, we were so sure the film was meant to start at 2:10 and so worried about being too late, and we were early. we sat down and opened the cake box. I made them help me because after everything I had already eaten there was no way I could eat a cake and a brownie! there was no need to order any snacks for the movie, we were all much too stuffed!

The film was absolutely brilliant, lots of laughs. at first Teo and Joy kept running around and I could see william was getting very upset. Eventually I managed to grab him and I fed him and he went to sleep, once he was settled, Joy settled down and we could all enjoy the film in peace.

afterwards, we went to the toilet before the long journey home when I realized I had been bleeding. I'm not sure if the slimming pants brought it on or if it was going to happen anyway but I didn't let it ruin my day because lets face it, it's all a part of nature and it's going to happen on alot of womens birthdays. It brought back memories of when Joy stopped breastfeeding and I started bleeding, I remember it didn't stop until I became pregnant with Teo. I just hope it's not going to be like that again.

Later that night we took Donald to anchor boys, we didn't have dinner first because we were all still too full. After Anchor boys we made tuna pasta for dinner and had more cake and icecream. Feeling incredibly full, sleep brought us all relief.