D16's birthday.

Lots of fun over our traditional birthday breakfast of huge slabs of birthday cake.

She called her dad, but he said he was busy working and couldn't come and join us.

She is working for the rest of the day and then seeing her grandparents for dinner and going out with her friends. He suggested seeing her when she's finished (i.e. at 11pm). She has work tomorrow at 7.30am...

Anyway, D16, S14 and i went out to a big festival last night. Lots of music, dancing and drinking (not so much of the latter for us).
Would never have gone to something like this 'on my own' as it were, before but now I have no problem at all. A good time for the kids and lots of fun. We were laughing like drains in the car on the way home over some funny stuff that we'd seen.

Stbx seems more and more like a distant memory.

Measured the kids for our bathroom door marking records: S14 is now taller than his sister (triumph!). Both of them are now about 5 inches taller than me. Oh dear, how my babies have grown.