Organising birthdays! How hard can it be?

 Here we are, September Ist. How did that come around so fast?

Yesterday we returned from Buckinghamshire and our daughter and family returned from Spain. Tomorrow is Granddaughter Number Four’s seventh birthday. My daughter and ai spent some time on the phone last night despairing about the fact that we are hopelessly disorganised this year for the September birthdays (Grandson Number Two will be four next Saturday and my daughter-in-law also has her birthday next Friday). So today we got our act together, parked tomorrow’s birthday girl on a friend and went off to Decathlon to purchase roller boots and the necessary safety equipment for the small girl. Her older sister will take her to a roller-skating rink to learn how to get her balance.

We took the small boy with us so that he could try out balance bikes and/or bikes with stabilisers, trying not to reveal that we were ordering one for next Saturday for him. That seemed to work. 

The two big girls, Granddaughters Number One and Number Two, accompanied us and spent their hard earned money on odds and ends. 

This evening I am coaxing my oven into staying active long enough to bake a birthday cake, which I will ice tomorrow morning, all being well. For just over a year now my oven has been increasingly temperamental, switching itself off at crucial moments … like half way through baking a cake. And I have been planning to replace it for almost as long, never het getting around to ordering a new one. The time has come! It’s September. Before we know it, Christmas will be around the corner and I will want to roast a bird of some kind, not to mention other stuff I will need the oven for. Time for a little organisation here. 

Quite how we will celebrate tomorrow’s birthday remains up in the air. Originally we had planned a family dinner on Sunday. A day late for the birthday girl but still a celebration. However, the Tour of Britain is coming though Delph on Sunday. Massed cyclists means roads closed to ordinary traffic. So we may have to do the family celebration tomorrow. We shall see. 

Life goes on. Stay safe and well, everyone!