Thank you and Yay!

May 11, 2010 · Filed under Uncategorized

Hello,

What a fabulous party! Thank you to you all, you made it a super special day! Hope everyone enjoyed the long distance party. We have been getting wonderful feedback. Fantastic day. Our party here went beautifully thank you. Am still recovering from it, picnicking in the woods takes lots of energy! So this will be brief, but I wanted to say 100,000 thank yous to everyone. Here are some pictures from peoples celebrations. If you would like us to post your pictures please email them to me. You can comment on here if you don’t have my email and I will send it to you.

On to the pictures:

The wonderful Denise, Kimmi and Krysta in Colorado, U.S.A

All pictures belong to Denise

Thank you for your sensational celebration!

Here are lovely Toshikos pictures

Pictures belong to Toshiko

Toshiko is in Japan. Here is the accompanying info she sent. Hope you enjoy!

“On the 3rd of May, this year, it was a little bit cloudy and windy at the beach, but warm with sunshine.
I went out to my favorite place before the sunset.
Those photos were taken here.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Enoshima,+Fujisawa+City,+Kanagawa+Prefecture,+Japan&sll=35.304199,139.480963&sspn=0.033552,0.071669&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Enoshima,+Fujisawa+City,+Kanagawa+Prefecture,+Japan&ll=35.301537,139.481049&spn=0.033553,0.071669&z=14

The place is called Enoshima island. It’s in my hometown, Fujisawa city. You can zoom out the map and see where I am in Japan.
The island is one of the popular sightseeing spot. The 3rd of May is a national holiday, which is Constitution Memorial Day, so there were many people.
When the sky is clear, you can see Mt.Fuji which is the symbolic mountain of Japan just next to the sun. (I can see a vague line of the mountain, though)
The other photo is the island from the other side of the bridge.
There are some shrines in the island dedicated for one of the seven gods for good fortune (Shichifukujin), and also there is a legend that a dragon flied down to this island.

This is the view from the other side of the continent on your birthday in 2010. It was 6pm here, so 12pm your place.
I hope you like them!!

Your friends, Toshiko xoxo”

Toshiko’s birthday was the 4th of May so this was really a joint celebration for her too. And happy birthday to Lucy for the 5th too! Thanks Toshiko for this! *hugs*

At Cwmcarn we had a great time.

Lovely day, lovely people, lovely forest, lovely food and lovely prezzies too! Thanks so much for everyones lovely comments. I will do my best to reply to them, but if I haven’t yet, know that I have not forgotten you, and I am thinking of you.

Okey dokey pictures:

Vegan Picnic at Cwmcarn

All pictures belong to Grace unless stated otherwise

More picnic fun

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Information Station, M.E Awareness, vegan and ethical living info.

Can you spot people wearing awareness ribbons in the other pictures?

All pictures belong to Grace unless stated otherwise

Make a Wish!

The birthday cake is made by darling Linus, and is 100% raw vegan organic healthy yummy goodness!

Email if you want the recipe!

All pictures belong to Grace unless stated otherwise

Turning 23!

On this day 23 years ago I was born, weighing 1 pound and 13 oz.

All pictures belong to Grace unless stated otherwise

Linus’s decorations…

All pictures belong to Grace unless stated otherwise

“Its my birthday, its my birthday, its my birthday!”

Giddy with excitement – can you tell from the picture? Lol!

NB. also featured are my lovely AYME Teddy ‘Denny’ from the AYME Teddy Team *thank you* www.ayme.org.uk

and my wonderful Project Linus quilt that AYME nominated me for. *Thanks and hugs* http://projectlinusuk.org.uk/

All pictures belong to Grace unless stated otherwise

Hope you have enjoyed these pictures, and that you all enjoyed the day. I am so excited to see the blog is still getting views even though the long distance party is over for this year. *Ok I am going to be brave and ask* Would anyone be interested in me continuing this blog with articles about living and thriving and healing with health challenges? Topic example that occured to me recently e.g:

Today we decorated our ceiling and other ways to cope

I spend most of my time lying down resting, so I look at the ceiling a lot, and as fabulously absorbing as the artex patterns are, we needed something more. So its a how to; inspirational ideas on decorating your ceiling and your house – because if you are in the same room mostly, it can get boring, but its just how you look at it, and what you are looking at! (This is not to pretend that being ill is superfun. Having a cool ceiling does not take away the difficulties, we are not doing denial here but positive ways of managing the challenges we are all living with day by day.)

That isn’t the best of intros but I am not at my best and brightest today. Let me know what you think. I can continue if people do want to read it, or just squirrel all the ideas away for use another time if you don’t. If you want to you can leave a comment and tick a box which subscribes you to updates, new posts or when I reply to your comment etc.

Lots of love and hugs and happy birthday girl best wishes and thanks to you all

love, Grace and Linus and family xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx