Happy Birthday Mum!

Today is my Mum's birthday, and Ian and I cooked dinner for the family. It's so awesome when the 8 of us get together :) It was a night of fun, food and family.

And it was lovely for all of us to get together and celebrate our Mum, Mom, Mamma.

We served homemade hummus and bruschetta to start, with champagne cocktails. For dinner we started with my famous curried cauliflower soup (made with my homemade stock). For the main Ian made his famous Beef Wellington, with garlic green beans and frites with truffle oil.

Then we served store bought red velvet cake for dessert.

A Huge Big Fabulous Happy Birthday to my awesome Mum. I love you very much, and you make me so happy to have you as my Mum and as my friend. :)

With Love
~sarah~

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Location:Jackson Ct,Ottawa,Canada

Family

I received an email from a relative overseas yesterday and have just finished replying to it. It was just a quick message and a slightly longer reply, but the short communication warmed my heart and made me very happy. Not just for this one piece of communication, but for the love of family.

I love family, I especially love my family. You can go months without speaking, but they are so easy to pick up with from where you left off, whether it was last week or last year.

I am blessed to have such wonderful relations, whether immediate, extended or in-laws. I am grateful to be surrounded by so many loving, intelligent and wonderful people that I get to call family.

To all of my relatives; in Canada, in the US and across the pond. I love you all very dearly and hope to see you all soon!

With Love
~sarah~

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Location:Jackson Ct,Ottawa,Canada

Life, the Universe, and Everything

Nope, I'm not talking about a Douglas Adams novel...I'm talking about the power, depth and joy that comes from an 8 hour discussion with one of my oldest and closest friends.

On Saturday night I stayed up until past the wee hours of the morning on Sunday having a heartfelt conversation with a friend with whom in the past few years I haven't spent much time.

We opened our minds and our hearts. We talked about things that meant a great deal to us, we challenged each other, we supported each other and I know I said things I haven't thought about in a long time.

We talked about love, family, friends, life and God. We both opened our hearts and connected on a spiritual level. I saw a side of my friend that I knew existed but had never had the pleasure of being a part.

I thank her for opening my heart and my head. And I thank God, the Universe and Everything :)

With Love
~sarah~

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