Let The Party Start

I had my birthday party this afternoon. My birthday is actually tomorrow and I decided to celebrate it a day early with friends.

Little Man went round to Timann's this morning. They brought him back and stayed for the some of the party. This gave me the chance to clean the house a bit and get everything ready for the party.

One thing that I love about the Dutch and their style of celebrating a party is that the host will give a time frame and people will drop in during that time. It meant that I didn't need to worry about everyone showing up at 2 pm. So it was very relaxed. It was a lovely day.

Gifts wise, I'd asked for gift cards from Hema (a Dutch department store) as I wanted to buy a coffee machine from there, so I got a lot of gift cards, as well as a few other things, like this beautiful bible. It's a New International Version NIV, with lines on each page next to the text, for writing down notes. It was unexpected and greatly appreciated.