birthday celebrations, completed

That was some weekend! Horribly cold weather, sore knee, exceptionally beautiful everything else! This morning, my older girl served brunch to the whole lot of us -- with an added friend and her two children. So now there were seven little ones, all well under 8, doing what kids that age do best -- scattering toys, dressing up, dancing, eating big fat bagels with or without all the bagel stuff us grownups love.

Here's our day then. Or, a sampling of all the wonderfulness that was heaped upon it! (Well, except for the weather. And the knee.)

(Heading out: the cane got very muddy.)

(At my daughter's home: a welcoming committee!)

(Another day of birthday presents! the boys help me with this one!)

(I join the kids' table. I'm only 70 after all!)

(Dress up time! My cane enters the act...)

(Can you do housework in a long gown? yes you can!)

(there are four moms in the room; here's the youngest one!)

(Cousin dance!)

(And more of cousin dance!)

(Tired, but happy -- that probably describes us all! Sad to say good bye to Juniper and Primrose...)

("We'll block the door and not let anyone leave!")

(Back to the farmette... The pears are blooming... We're looking forward to a warmup this week!)

Evening quiet. Ed sleeps, I run through knee exercises. For dinner, he and I fill up on leftover steaks frites from yesterday's meal. We dont ourselves cook or load our plates with beef, but we make an exception when kids leave us reasonable portions of their tasty restaurant beef dishes!

And so ends a fantastic April of celebrations! It could not have been a finer birthday. I'm left with a computer full of photos and a heart spilling over with love.

Time to rally and make the next month a good one!