Celebrating with Family Together for a Milestone Birthday

My beloved celebrated his milestone birthday recently.

My husband celebrated his milestone birthday in the first week of August.


Our grown children made a special effort to come home and celebrated his birthday at the end of July.







However, my husband is a low key person; he didn't want any big party nor bring any attention to himself.

All he wanted was our immediate family together to have a nice dinner to mark this special birthday.

So we had a small, intimate family dinner in a Markham restaurant recommended by my brother.

The last time our family got together was the Christmas of 2013. So our time spent together was very precious to us.

The Rex is always a favorite place for us.

After dinner, we went to my husband's favourite place for a drink and some jazz music in downtown Toronto.

Some father and son time together!

J. arrived home a few days before we came back from our trip to China. Though we had planned to spend an extra two weeks to do some sightseeing overseas, we changed our plan at the last minute due to J.'s sudden change in his schedule. I was glad that by the time we got home, he got quite a bit done for what he wanted to do in Toronto.

J. and his childhood friend at home for dinner

E. attended Stephen' W.\s wedding and was busy for a couple of days. It was so good having him home for a few days and J. home for a couple of weeks so that I could make them some healthy homemade good food.


J. was anxious to see his friends and cousins and he asked me if we could arrange some dinner parties and invited them. I did.

J. invited his friends home for a poker game at home.

So, Doug, Don and Florence came for one dinner, followed by Fred, Deb and Ben. Our last dinner party was for J's young cousins.

J. even invited his old university pals for a poker game. The house was filled with young people and laughter.




It was like when the kids were in their teens again! We just love having our grown children around.
Distance makes the hearts grow fonder! Rosie commented that J. is more mature and happier. Praise God for His blessings on our children!

R.T.
A Happy & blessed Mom
Toronto