madeleone

Happy Halloween today and thanks to everyone who sent birthday wishes, v-gifts, and gorgeous art (mywitch) yesterday.

I had a lovely quiet day at home reading, knitting, and just hanging out. I heard from all four of my kids (even my oldest son who is notorious for remembering my b'day usually three days later.) He and his kids left a birthday serenade on my voicemail.

I made a pot of Chicken Gnocchi soup for dinner. (It was delicious. The recipe claims that it's even better than Olive Garden's. I've honestly never had theirs, but it has become one of my favorite soups). Younger son T came out to hunt after school (he's a teacher) and stayed for dinner, so that was nice.

I got a amazon gift card from my baby J and her family, along with a video card that was adorable of her three and five-year-old singing Happy B'day to me, and also had nice long call with them. And I had Skyped earlier with older daughter K and grandkids and opened their gift that arrived in the mail (picture below). I was quite excited about this as I have quite a collection of HP funco dolls, but I'll have to wait until Dec.1st to play with it as it's an Advent calender. Perhaps I'll post a pic each day when I open them ala Gingerbred, as she did last year with her lego calender. So all in all I had a very nice birthday.

Just wanted to say a quick thanks for all the nice B'day wishes, here on LJ in posts and comments, and also on my madeleone FB account too. Also thank you to a couple special friends for some nice real and virtual gifts.

I had a lovely day, heard from three of my kids and had dinner out with the fourth kid and hubby. We went to Famous Daves, a BBQ joint chain, and had a delicious meal with enough for left overs yesterday.

Hubby and I don't usually do b'day gifts anymore, we're at a point where if we want something we just get it, ( well, within reason, no Lamborghinis or the like). My younger daughter sells origami owl jewelry, and just happened to be hosting an online party this weekend. So I ordered myself a nifty new watch, complete with two different bands and two face plates that I can switch out to change looks, and the face plates can be switched out with some of my lockets from there too. So versatile, I love it! Great B'day gift for myself.