Your ideal birthday

[Gemini]

We all have a birthday every year, even though many of us would rather have had less of them!

What would your perfect birthday be like? Not the one you think you will have, but one you would choose from beginning to end

I would start with a cup of tea in bed, opening my cards and checking into FB and GRU! Then a lovely breakfast, including Bucks Fizz.
Next I would meet my daughters, and go for a spa morning. Hot tubs, a swim, maybe a facial or massage. Plenty of laughs with my daughters, finishing with a light lunch.
Then I would drive to the coast for the afternoon with OH, and while we were there have tea and cake. On the way home we would call into DD2s. DD1 would bring GS1, so I would see all my GC together, and we could have birthday cake!
After spending time with the GC, I would go home, change, and OH and I would meet friends for dinner.


That sounds a perfect day to me. What would you do??

[Oma]

Well next month is my big 60 and up till now I have no idea what I would like to do , I'm happy with just a meal out with everyone , but I have a feeling OH DD and my friend (SIL,s) mother have other plans , I don't want to make a fuss think it's we don't know from week to week what's happening so don't want to make plans

[Qwerty]

Oooh latte and toast in bed then out for a brunch with all the family in a posh hotel, a long walk in the countryside, late lunch at Marco Pierre Whites we have one of his restaurants in Leeds, and it looks over the locks and watch the world go by , of course it's April but it's 22deg so we're sat outside prosseco would be on tap. Home for a lovely bath and romantic dinner out with OH who will have surprised me with the gift of a holiday abroad, greedy yes I am !!!

[aggie]

Just a long lie in !! at the moment I am up at 7 am every morning to administer tablets ,no sympathy please I have my big girls pants on

[ZIZI]

It was my 60th last August and it was perfect. On the day husband gave me a beautiful selection of Pandora charms, we had a champagne breakfast at home with smoked salmon and scrambly eggs. We went up to town to a lovely hotel and had lunch with more fizz and then in the evening we went to a fantastic Turkish restaurant and then went to see "Beautiful" the Carole King story. So my time and my sort of music, I cried nearly all the way through it. We ended the evening with champagne cocktails at the hotel although I was horrified at the cost! The following day my family, my children, grandchildren, brothers and sisters, all met for lunch in a restaurant that used to be the toilet on Twickenham Green (I was born nearby and the Green has a special significance for me). It was wonderful. I so enjoyed the day. I love my husband.

[ZIZI]

Aggie sorry hadn't read your post. XX

[Oma]

AGGIE I have some big pants too for just such occasions 😊a lie in sounds perfect for you we don't ask for much do we xxx

[ZIZI]

Oh may I remind a certain person about BIG pants and BIRMINGHAM????

[Avo]

I'm 60 next year and am going on a lovely cruise with OH (on the 5 mast clipper ship) with our stay in Rome and Venice, but also as my best friend is 60 2 weeks before we are renting a house at Cromer in Norfolk (sleeps 17) and both of us have our children and grandchildren sharing a weekend with us. Really looking forward to it.

[Oma]

Me never ZIZI
😂

[Daisy]

This has made me think, and I've reached the conclusion that I have no idea what my ideal birthday would be!

[Plantaholic]

Without my OH now, although he was never romantic, I quite like to go out to dinner with the family to our favourite restaurant

[Mimi]

Just to see the GC more often would be enough for me. We see them less and less now, everyone seems to be so busy that they don't have time for even a phone call.

[Nanto2girls]

Just a meal out with kids and grandkids does me.

Although for my 60th, we were on a Caribbean cruise, which was good.

For hubby's 60th and 40th anniversary we went to Las Vegas for the first time.

[Daisy]

Just to see the GC more often would be enough for me. We see them less and less now, everyone seems to be so busy that they don't have time for even a phone call.

Mimi - I think this is true for a lot of families. Unless you live very close to each other it's often hard to arrange family get togethers to suit everyone, and it's all to easy to tell yourself you'll phone 'tomorrow'. I still feel rather sad that when myMIL was in a nursing home 5 hours away from us, I didn't write to her more often. There was no mobile phone, email or Skype in those days and I'd get home from a busy job, with a bag full of work to be done for the next morning, cook a meal, and then be too tired to do anything else. I should have made the time somehow, but I didn't. I'd tell myself there were 3 of her 5 children living very close by, with one DD and one DIL not working outside the home. But I still feel bad about it. So I guess it's nothing new, but that doesn't make it any better!