Katherine's 16th birthday!

Well I can't believe she's 16!! How did that happen??

I decorated the house with pink birthday balloons after she'd gone to bed Tuesday evening and I put balloons and a happy birthday banner on the front door.

I took her to school in the morning as she went in to do some revision. Then I met her and her friend Chelsea in the town just after 10.30am. We had a lovely couple of hours mooching around. Chelsea got Katherine to choose a birthday present and that took the longest time! We had a drink in the cafe and then Chelsea went home and I took the girls into WHSmith to choose a book each with some book tokens they'd been given.

Katherine got her tokens for services to the school and had to choose a suitable book for the presentation evening later in the month. She chose an A level psycology book as that's what she'll be studying at 6th form college. Isobel however chose a Cinderella activity book lol!

We then took Isobel to pre-school and collected Mark and went to Maccy D's for some lunch. I was very good and only had a chicken salad deli thingy and a cup of tea.

After we went to Morrisons for a few bits and I got called a 'rude cow' but a grumpy woman who I accidentally stood in front of when she was looking in the freezers - some people hey!

We got home and Katherine and Mark walked up to collect Isobel from playgroup as it was such a lovely sunny day.

Later on 13 of us went for a meal at the Milestone in Hinckley. We had a really lovely evening. The food was fantastic and at two meals for the price of one it can't be bad!

Katherine had some beautiful flowers given to her, some from her Nan and some from us. She also had her first 'legal' drink in a restaurant, although she didn't finish it as she had to dash off to you theatre.

We had a 'fairy' party at the restaurant and I gave everyone a little silver wand lol. We got her a lovely cake and did the whole happy birthday thing and she blew out the candles but then had to go.

Later on Mark and Steve came round (Mark was working until after 9). Katherine arrived home from youth theatre shortly after and we had some fun and games here.

On the whole I think she had a lovely day and the stress and worry of her GCSE's seemed to fade into the background for a while....