Skip to main content

Happy Birthday to you!!


Wow I can not believe how fast time is flying already near the end of January in 2012!! Happy New year, I hope you had a lovely Christmas and New Year's I know that my family and I were super busy but it was all lovely. Including my sister's wedding on New Year's Eve and now she is married and has moved to Tassie, which is great but I miss her already.

New year's always make you think of starting afresh, a new start in my sister's case a new life and I am always hoping for something special in the new year to happen.  Have you made any new year's resolutions?? I am not a very good resolutions setter or even goal setter (which is practically what they are right?) but I did write some down so here's to actually doing some of them this year haha!
So ok, I'll share a couple with you hmm.....

  • Take dance lessons
  • Make time to develop friendships
  • Build my singing career
  • As a Mary Kay Beauty Consultant build my customer base and move to Directorship
  • Exercise regularly
Ok thats probably enough and now I have to stick to them!

So a new year also means a year older and for my brother, he turned a significant year older, 18 on the 12th of Jan. So as a tradition with us we had a family party on his actual birthday and then he had a party on the next night.  Which was a great night and they all had fun and liked the cake I had made him.  Now, our family is a singing family as you may have gathered if you've read before and so we have our own set of birthday songs there is 3 main ones and some silly others and what we like to do is sing in up to 6 part harmony and people who hear this are usually quite taken back.  We dont like to sing out of tune (as is often done at parties) but think it is more fun to do interesting arrangments. 
The songs are Happy Birthday, For he's a Jolly Good Fellow (or she!), Why was he/she born so beautiful and then of course we like to clap the years as well. Ok so it can be a bit embarrassing at times but usually its very well recieved. We have even been invited to birthdays entirely so that we would sing, at resturants if we have sung others have asked us to sing to them and even at my brothers family party this year my new brother-in-law recorded us so he can play it when he goes to others!
So question, do you have birthday songs or traditions??
I like them it makes it special.

Good luck with the resolutions :)

Bec x

My Brother's SKYRIM cake

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A Dream is a wish your heart makes....

A dream is a wish you heart makes... Do you have a dream? something that you want your life to be? or somewhere you want to go? Are you reaching for it? I have had a dream to be a Mary Kay Director since I joined the company 10 years ago and this month I took a huge step to achieving this. On October 1st I entered into DIQ or Director in Qualification, I now have 4 months to become a Director. I am very excited about this, the timing seemed right and when I do it I will be able to do just Mary Kay and Singing which will be perfect! It is rather scary though because there is a lot of work to be done in those four months, I have to build my team and reach certain production goals and sometimes it seems crazy, but that's the idea of moving up isn't it? taking a leap of faith? So why Directorship you ask? I understand leadership is not for everyone but I have always been drawn to it. I do have a passion for helping women feel good about themselves and I believe that we are...
Post a Comment
Read more

MMMBop and road trip classics 😉

Road trip singalongs are the best! Do you agree?  What are your favourite songs to sing? Do you have specific lists or eras or styles of music you listen/sing to?  For me it usually depends who I am travelling with but nothing beats a good 80s/90s song list.... So last weekend I was on a road trip to Halls Gap with my sister, my brother in law and my niece and nephew. We had a fabulous time singing away the hours to many a favourite. Of course the kids occasionally asked for a song they knew but we thought it was important we listened to the classics haha 😜 We headed to Halls Gap for NanaFest 2019! A weekend to celebrate the 90th Birthday of my Nana Dawn. Staying in cabins and tents the family came from Victoria and SA and shared a weekend of catching up, a party, jumping pillows and bonfires. I do love my family, there is a a lot of us and it is lovely to see the all the generations interacting and enjoying each others company. We had wonderful weather and m...
Post a Comment
Read more

"Oh what a Beautiful Morning, Oh what a Beautiful Day...."

"Oh what a Beautiful Morning, Oh what a Beautiful Day......" Well actually its been a beautiful week! I did have the absolute privilege to play Laurey in Oklahoma! presented live on Four Oaks Farm in Littlehampton SA. It was such a beautiful setting to be in everyday, trees, fresh air, animals in the paddocks around and one rather show stealing peacock!! The cast was fabulous, the orchestra amazing and the sound superb (Tim Freedman, Allpro Audio  love your work!!). At the risk of sounding cheesy it was a magical experience. From the moment that Curly rides along the ridge on his horse (an actual horse!) singing "Oh what a Beautiful Morning" people were captivated. It was such a labour of love for all of us, and to see the joy in people's faces was so wonderful. This production was the idea of Emma Knights from Emma Knights Productions and along with some other wonderful people who captured the vision of it all as well, it actua...
Post a Comment
Read more