Birthdays

From the month of September, our family is in birthday mode with a birthday each month ending in a big bang for christmas.

October is my husbands birthday and this year its a big one......40!!!!

I still can't believe it! I think I'm taking it harder than him. Luckily we both still feel years younger than what we are.
Its just creeped up on us.

I look at him and I'm ever so grateful for all this time we've shared and been together. We have two gorgeous little girls. And are just plain happy.

Sure I have my days where I've taken all I can take and I erupt like mount Etna. Holding nothing back! But  all couples go through this. We just have to stay true to ourselves and our partners. And I think after all the years spent together, we have to take and make the time for each other. With kids, life and work all getting in the way its so easy to just say I'm tired and not even bother, but it doesn't take much and it does the world of good for the two of you.

I planned a few days away to Macau for the family. Some well deserved family time.

We took the Cotai jet from Hong Kong which is a comfortable one hour ride.

 Stayed at a lavish 5 star hotel.  I had planned to visit quite  a few of the sites but gave in after a brief visit to the ruins of St Pauls as no one was interested.  The only thing that kept them quiet was a Hagen Das ice-cream and even that done more harm than good after five minutes under the Macau sun.  Sweet , sticky drops were dripping all down Mathildes arm and face. They were hot , tired and just wanted to sample the hotel pool that we'd been speaking about since a few weeks.

These almond cookies are found all over Macau. On the Street that leads to St Pauls, shops are packed with dried meats and these cookies. All you hear as you walk is the clicking of the tongs.

Again I was reminded about how your vacations are different when you have small kids. Luckily, mine are, most of the time , happy go lucky little girls. But then again, sometimes not!


Macau was a Portuguese colony and reminders of this past are scattered all over the city. It was beautiful to see the old, colonial style buildings - makes a refreshing change from all the Hong Kong sky scrapers.

Macau is known as the Las Vegas of the East. Gambling is allowed as the portuguese government at the time legalised it.  There's no shortage of casinos and because Chinese people like to gamble and its not authorised in China, there's no shortage of Chinese people. The hotels are packed!!

Here in Hong Kong, I have the occasional stare and question about my little Mathildes hair ' Is it natural  the curls and colour?'  They go completely gaga over her and her hair.
And it started in the ferry, one women was completely besides herself. She couldn't walk past Mathilde without telling her how beautiful she was. And that was just the beginning.
At our hotel, she was an attraction in herself. At first she was all shy but in the end she was posing , looking slightly fed up and even doing the odd 'peace' with her two fingers  just like them.
There was a jester doing magic tricks, who in turn also succumbed to Mathildes charm. Not only was she bringing him a crowd, the people were asking her to pose with them and the jester.
The so called jester who in turn finally couldn't help himself and took out his phone and posed for photo with Mathilde.

We ate , way too much, played , had cocktails and just enjoyed the time together as a family. The girls didn't want to leave and to be honest, neither did I.

Hubby and myself have now decided to do a little break like this atleast once a month. No more putting things off.  Life is way to short so we should take advantage and live life to the fullest!!