With Donncha home briefly we took the opportunity last night to invite our close friends for dinner at home to celebrate my birthday. On our list were Santhi & Roy (with their girls Uma and Maya), Gavin & Juliet and Brian & Cath. There's nothing better than having friends around your own dinner table.
For dinner we had melt in your mouth arabic lamb with saffron rice and garlic prawns thanks to help from my mum's kitchen. Santhi had kindly brought squid curry which was fantastic. Gavin brought along his famous harissa paste and hummous. And to accompany all of the above I made tzaziki, a vegetable stew and cous-cous. It was all very good. And for dessert we had Jasmine's profiteroles which as always were very moorish.
Iman, Jack and Ayden were very excited to have Uma and Maya for a mini sleepover. So much that Ayden only went to sleep at 10.00 followed by Jack at 11.00 but Iman did not disappoint her guests and kept the party rocking.
It was no surprise that we were slow to start this morning but with my Mum still away we had invited my Dad over for breakfast so it was fried eggs and barbequed sausages. It's the first time we've ever had my Dad over for breakfast and the kids were very excited.
Sunday evening and Donncha's on another plane this time to Dubai followed by Hong Kong. Looking forward to having him home Friday.
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