Stephanie Butland

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Tag: birthdays

41 Flash: the results

In celebration of my birthday, I gave you 41 words (one of which was ‘thrive’) and asked you to do something wonderful with them. Many of you did. I couldn’t pick a winner, so I picked three.
Francesca wins for her beautiful spirit:

I will live, laugh and love. The alien will be destroyed. The rogue cells [...]

Bah! revisited: So many good things in my life

Yesterday, we went to a third birthday party. Here’s the birthday boy, Tarran, with big brother Ellis in the background with his lightsaber.

And here’s what I wrote shortly after he was born, in March 2009.
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You may remember that a couple of weeks ago I posted that I may be going to attend the birth of [...]

A good start

New Year’s Day is a special day in our family, because it marks the anniversary of my niece Emily’s birth. She was 9 yesterday.
Joy made her an ice rink birthday cake – she’d had an ice rink party -

and she loved it.

She also loved her penny whistle, and played ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ on it [...]