Friends and Birthdays

When I was in my 20s and early 30s, I liked doing fun things for my birthday. As I've gotten older, though, I don't really care about that anymore. I do usually end up doing something, but I won’t be sad if I don't end up doing anything.

I have a group of friends all around the same age plus or minus a few years. Some like to do things for their birthday and some don't. 

In this blog post, I will write about three birthday gatherings I went to this year. Just because I want to remember. 

For Rachel's birthday, we got together at Diana's house and ate Olive Garden for dinner. After we ate dinner, we played Nertz and then had cake and ice cream for dessert. It was a good time with delicious food, a fun game, and lively conversation!

For Cat's birthday, we went to a pottery studio where we each picked out and painted a dish. I hadn't been to a pottery painting studio in a long time but it was fun to paint and chat! 

Here are each of the dishes that we painted at the pottery studio. Mine is the bowl with the star in the middle. The studio glazed the dishes and we picked them up a week or two later. I love my bowl and use it all of the time. :)

For my birthday, we got together at Diana's house where we chatted while eating cupcakes and ice cream. My friends also let me talk about and show pictures from my trip that I had returned from a couple of weeks earlier. (I consider my Europe trip as an early birthday gift to myself.) (I invited a couple of more people to my birthday gathering but they couldn't join us that night).

I am grateful for my friends and their kindness and friendship throughout the years! I think they're pretty great. :)