Family Birthday Lunch

My birthday is coming up fast (during the weekend) and my daughter Nicky suggested we meet for lunch up in Feilding.  What a good idea we thought, and drove up on Thursday.  We were meeting in  Delish Café,  a new to us place, and they certainly were busy.  We were a little early grabbed a table, ordered a coffee each, and waited for the family to arrive.

Lunch time

It was so nice that both grand-daughters could meet us for lunch as well.  Megan took a couple of hours off from work, and Emma had the whole day off, because it was her birthday.  She had spent the morning riding her horse at the beach with friends, then rushed home to come and meet up with us.

Megan and birthday girl Emma

The meals were very tasty, and then Nicky presented me with my birthday gift.  What was inside, I wondered?

There’s a gift inside

Inside the bag was a long forgotten treasure.  Some years ago I went to the Altrusa fabric fair and purchased a linen tablecloth and threads, for a very reasonable price.  This had been partially completed and I presumed I would finish it up in no time at all.  That didn’t happen,and after languishing in a bag for quite some time I passed it over to Nicky to see if she would be interested in completing it for me.  All this happened so long ago I had completely forgotten all about it.  She has been stitching away these last few months, to get it finished in time for my birthday.  Not only that, Nicky has recently taught herself to crochet and made the lovely tablecloth edging as well.

Me with Nicky

This cloth is particularly special to me, not only because Nicky worked so hard to complete it for me, but also because I can claim some Scots blood in my veins. My Maternal grandfather came to New Zealand from Glasgow.

My beautiful tablecloth, hand stitched with love

I had a birthday gift for each of the girls, Emma’s birthday was on our lunch day, and Megan’s is in another week or so.  It was a lovely day out, and I’m so thrilled with my gift.