Birthday Snow

I woke up at half past seven this morning to the sound of laura whispering on the landing "Siobhan" in a very excited manner. I realised it must have snowed if Laura was up and about trying to wake people up. I have never seen a child get half as excited as Laura does about snow. I looked out my window and sure enough the world was sugar coated. I wandered out of my bedroom and heard Laura "Brianne, Brianne, have you looked outside! We have to go outside". So Laura, Rachel and I wrapped up against the cold and went over the road to the park (Siobhan sensibly stayed inside). No one else had been out yet and the park looked perfect. We had snowball fights, built a snowman and had competitions to see who could jump the farthest. I felt like a kid again and quite carfree. Rachel said it was my birthday snow.

It's not my birtday until Saturday but last night when i got back from placement, the girls said that my birthday week starts now. We all find placements quite stressful and i think we all needed to let loose. So wine was opened and Helen came over to make apple crumble (as she had promised she would do for my birthday. It's my favourite dessert) but for some reason the girls would not let me into the kitchen. I thought they must be doing something extra special with this apple crumble. Then the lights went out in the living room and they emerged from the kitchen with a chocolate birthday cake covered in dolly mixtures and with four candles. Laura had made it that afternoon. Tonight we are all going ouot to Thai Corner for a meal and Saturday night I am going to see Twelfth Night at the Old Vic, so it really does feel like this is my birthday week. I feel very lucky to have once again found myself living with such a great group of people. I have been very blessed in my friends.