it was my cousin jade's birthday party last sunday, spent at mum and dad's house with all the family. she was so sweet and grateful when she opened up her presents and went around kissing and hugging everyone for them. i hope i was as lovely as her at age eleven, it's clear she will grow into a beautiful girl both on the outside and in, just like her mum. in my card to jade i wrote that i remember meeting her as a tiny baby like it was yesterday. it's hard to believe that it was over ten years ago! it's funny to think that when i was born rach was in her teens, then when jade was born i was in mine and when i have babies (and i will!) jade will most likely be in hers! another thought i've been having a lot lately is that we don't really remember what we were like when we were kids. we know bits and pieces from our memory, photos and stories but it's hard to really know what our personality was at five and then ten and maybe even fifteen, especially the older we get. and that's odd to me because that was still us! surely we should know ourselves better than anyone else in the world but we really don't. our parents and family really hold the key. so next time i see mum and dad i'm going to ask them to tell me some more about myself and matt and alyce as babies and toddlers and little kids and then as older kids (not as a teen though, i am keen to forget those years!). even the other night i was reading through old letters and cards and emails matt and i had sent to each other when we were at uni. it was like i was reading something written by two completely different people, no where close to sounding like the people that we are now, all these years later. i guess that is the beauty of life though, we keep changing and growing and it never stops. when we are thirty we will think 'what did i know at 24!' and so on for the rest of our lives. after reading those letters (some discussing possibly breaking up) we both sounded so childish and silly and dramatic and young! it literally read like a bad script straight from home and away or neighbours. matt and i had a good laugh over them while we had dinner together and congratulated ourselves for turning into slightly more mature adults. anyway, i know i am getting off track, this was meant to be a quick post about the great sunday i had for jades birthday! the best bits? being with family and friends, blowing up balloons in pretty colour combinations ready for her arrival (and trying but failing to teach lewis how to tie them and meg how to blow them up), watching jade try on some cute new threads and her very own pandora bracelet, hearing her academy award winner worthy acceptance speech when she thanked us all for coming (via the microphone of her brand new keyboard, which she also gave us a demo of!) and finally having a slice of rach's delicious looking and tasting lemon meringue pie that posed as the birthday cake! i love birthdays!
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