Let's Party!

After spending the days leading up to it feeling extremely nervous,I had the most wonderful party on Saturday night.

I was totally overwhelmed by the whole event.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who made my day so special, including my many online friends.

I would like to share some pictures of the night with you...smiles.

My cake had a firework candle on it so I have posted a picture of it alight.

Being 40 isn't too bad after all...ha.

Smiles with wrinkles!!!

Almost forty, but not feeling naughty!

Well, tomorrow I will be 40...yes, me!

I have mixed feelings about this birthday but it's going to come and there's not a thing I can do to stop it, ha!

When I wake up tomrrow, I will still be the same person I have always been but middle-aged.

I have always said that I will never be fair, fat and forty, so I have had my hair coloured brown, lost some weight, but like I say I can't do anything about the ''40'' bit.

Tomorrow night I am having a big birthday party in a rather trendy club in town for my friends and family. I am a little excited but more nervous than anything. I have had a lovely cake made for me by Val, a friend from church and she has put a firework candle on it it for me that sparkles when it's lit!!!

I have a very ''ladylike'' outfit hanging in my wardrobe, a far cry from the usual trackies and t-shirts I like to wear...ha. Not to mention a matching bag and shoes.

My mum has given me a gold and pearl necklace with matching earrings that she had bought for her when she was pregnant with me, so they are the same age as me. They are beautiful and I'm going to wear them tomorrow. I think she has been waiting all this time to give them to me, thanks Mum. I will treasure them.

I have also made a slide-show of pictures of my life and have added the song ''The Day I Met Marie'' by Cliff Richard to it, and am hoping to play it at my party.

So here I am now, sitting here alone, savouring the last half an hour of my thirties..eeww. I feel happy that I am healthy enough to enjoy all that will happen tomorrow and beyond tomorrow too. I feel sad that Richie isn't here with me, but we will be having a party all of our very own in the New Year.He's just text me and wished me a Happy Birthday. I'm missing my girls, but they will be home Sunday and we are going to celebrate next week with a family meal in a local restaurant, more celebrations. I'm a lucky girl in so many ways.

I thank God for my life so far, and put the rest of it in His hands.

As soon as I get the chance, I will share some pics here with you of my day.

So it's time for bed now. I musn't forget my ''anti-wrinkle cream'' tonight. In fact, I don't think I'll be forgetting it any night from now on...ha.

Smiles...sighs...yawns...HELP!!!!

Home Alone!!!

Tomorrow, my girls are flying out to Turkey with their dad for a two week holiday. My Mum and her hubby Tom are in Cyprus on holiday at present and Berenice is due for her break at her Mum's in just over a week, so I will be home alone!!!

Although I have plenty to keep me occupied, like work and my other weekly commitments, I think I will also feel a little lost for a while.

Richie was due to visit this month but he can't come because of reasons beyond his control and although I am disappointed (and he is too), I understand. I am going to need him lots over the next couple of weeks and I know he will be there for me like he always is. So many things have gone wrong for him, for us, over this last year but so much is right too. We have a great relationship and work through each and every hurdle together.

Some people might think ''what's the point?''. If they could be me for just a day, and feel what I feel, then they would know. I love him totally and I know there will come a day when we will both look back and say ''do you remember when?''

In January the tables will turn because when everyone here is shivering in the Winter cold, I will be flying out to the U.S again to shiver with Richie in the U.S cold...ha. I know Richie wanted more than anything to come here, and he will, but in the meantime, I need to see him. We need to be together. January is still a long way off, but it will come and we will be together again. It can't come quick enough.

In the meantime, I have plenty to be getting on with. My 40th birthday party for starters...eeww, and Christmas of course...and a few hundred other things.

So I am not going to let this life get me down. It has done that far too much so far.

Lights, camera, action!

Well, the trip to South Wales went really well. It was a great experience and Becky and me learnt an awful lot about the world of television and filming.

Becky was treated like royalty and the team couldn't do enough for her.

We were swaying with tiredness by the end of the day but I am so glad I was able to accompany her for the first ''shoot''. Ha, I think that's what it's called.

She was so well behaved and did her very best and I treated her to a bottle of ''Britney Spears Fantasy'' perfume.

It looks like she has four more days of filming to go before the show goes out in February next year, so we had better get some early nights...ha.

Here are some pics of our time there. The first one is of Becky at the end of it all waiting for the train to go home...ha. The next ones are of the actual filming day and the last couple are of London.

The little red dragon is called ''Dewi'' (good Welsh name) and he lives at Becky's school and the children take him on their holidays and photograph him all over the world. So we decided to take some pics of him posing in the ever so posh hotel we stayed at...ha.