My 40th Birthday Weekend

The other weekend I should have been heading off to the bright lights of London for my 3rd Britmums Live conference, and I was actually looking forward to attending and meeting up with all my on line friends and fellow bloggers. But then on the Monday before I recieved a text from a friend offering me her weekend break in Cornwall instead, and with the weather being so glorious and it being my birthday on the Sunday, I decided to go for it and waved goodbye to my tickets to London.

I definately made the right choice – yes I missed catching up with the BML vibe and seeing my friends BUT being away with my little family in sunny, beautiful Cornwall was wonderful and  we really could not have asked for better weather – it was like being abroad! We arrived at St Minver Friday night, but Saturday morning we headed to Rock and caught the ferry boat, signalled by Burton waving the flag, across the azure sea to Padstow. The boys loved travelling across the water! While in Padstow we just mooched about and enjoyed a delicious fish and chip lunch at Rick Stein’s chippy. The battered fish is coated in a beef dripping batter – and it was so crispy and even my fussy boys ate some battered fish! (Yep the diet was off that weekend I ate cake and ice cream too while we were away, and I enjoyed it!!)

Once back in Rock we headed for the beach for some sandcastle building and some paddling in the sea to cool off. We did not stay for as long as we may have liked as the beach was covered in washed up jelly fish and we did not want any stings on little limbs!!

Sunday I awoke to Burton coming in at 6.30am to wish me a happy birthday!  (Shame a lie in was not one of my birthday presents!! ) Although he had to wait an hour until Jenson woke up to give me my cards. He drew him and Jenson in the sea yesterday at Rock, and Jenson’s? He told me it was just a scribble and I told him that I love scribbles !!

We spent the day visiting a lovely Farm Shop which not only sold some really lovely local produce, edible and non edible, but also served food and drinks and had a fanatastic outdoors play area which the boys enjoyed exploring. It also served the biggest sponge layers in homemade cakes I have ever seen!

It was a lovely birthday – I had been feeling pretty ‘meh’ about the whole turning 40 and dreading it, but now I am wondering if a part of that was because we had not planned any way of celebrating it. Mind you, I had also told people that I was not sure if I wanted to commemorate or commiserate such a milestone birthday, so it was no surprise that nothing had been arranged! However, thanks to a last minute weekend break in Cornwall, some amazing weather and my boys and their daddy, my 40th birthday was actually rather nice!

Cheers!

Afterall, a 40th birthday is not complete without a huge slice of cake, some comedy sunglasses and a glass of bubbly!