Surprise!!

About a month ago I "celebrated" my birthday. I am never a big fan of birthday celebrations, for myself that is (better make this point clear otherwise I will not be invited to anymore birthday celebrations). And no, it is not that I am sad that I aged another year because I truly believe I am only as old as my heart and mind feel. And at this point in time I feel like a 24 year old although my body (tummy) will beg to differ.

Since a number of years ago I had even stopped taking leave on my birthday so I went to work as usual and closer colleagues who know me better will respect that I do not want any fuss so they will just msn or skyped me to wish me well. I can't imagine my colleagues singing birthday song while I cut the cake. If this is the company culture then I will definitely take leave to skip this show altogether.

So the usual "celebrations" will be to go for a nicer dinner with the Mrs. However recent years even this is nothing special since we do not really wait for any particular day to go for a nicer meal. Whenever we feel like it we will just go for a nice steak at Morton's or teppanyaki at Nanbantei (our favourite place for teppanyaki).

As for gifts, I am an impatient person so I will almost never wait till my birthday to buy the certain something that I wanted or wait for the Mrs to buy it for me. So whenever it is my birthday the Mrs will usually have a hard time thinking of things that I need or want. Even the usual practical gift such as wallet and belt are no longer an option because I take very good care of my things and usually they will last for years. Tip: I never sit down with my wallet in my back pocket.

This year however was truly special because first of all we did not even go out for the dinner as my mum fell 2 days before my birthday and broke her wrist hence we felt it was better that we returned home early to fetch Ani home and took care of Isaac ourselves.

Dinner like I mentioned is only a small matter since we have been stuffing ourselves with rather good food lately. What is really nice is the card and the surprise that I received from the Mrs. To share with all of you I have scanned it and posted it below.

Knowing that I don't fuss about my own birthday, this card is very appropriate indeed.

Cute right?

The surprise was initially covered up by a post-it.

In case you can't see properly, I took the liberty to enlarge it for you all.

Not sure how many of you have been reading my blog since day one but one of my earliest post was on the topic of superstition. Then I figured that by posting I was not really telling anyone since I did not know if anyone would be reading at all right? However this time round it is different since a few of you readers have become friends. So I waited that little while longer just to clear the scans with Dr N before posting this.

We went for our scan today and since Dr N gave the thumbs up hence we are sharing this piece of fantastic news with all of you!