Our simple, gentle birthday loving!

How we do birthdays

Well you will all be quite bored when I explain how we celebrate these sort of occasions… especially considering all the beautiful traditions, of birthday happiness and love, one sees emerging, amongst families these days. 
We have done some nice traditions in the past, especially the hand made variety, a knitted something and a home baked cake, this is so sweet, but these days-

We have a low profile, trying for a sort of essence of what these celebratory things mean.

Having come to certain conclusions, that family life is all about love, which we do unceasingly; we make some effort to simply be with each other. 
Letting those distracting thoughts of duties, plans or obligations go, just to spend the precious moments being who we are together. 
This is how we choose to spend our “special’ days!
Our family is moving away from always needing to express our care, in a material way- this is progress for us, not a hard and fast rule, but the forming of our own tradition.

In explaining this I think of a friend of mine who inherited his mothers expensive hand engraved silver ware, and his comment about the set... He said, my mother would only bring these out on special occasions, but I use them everyday because every day is a special occasion.. Fundamentally, everyday is something worth rejoicing in and those people in our life are worth making feel cared for and appreciated everyday.

So on a birthday, we remember what makes our life special it is each other. We give love and receive love from each other, and eat something nice and do something nice… and it’s always just enough and never ever too much.

2 day old Chimme

And dear friends your comments on my post yesterday touched my heart so deeply, thank you!