Yesterday we celebrated Beth's half birthday. This is a tradition we started a few years ago when we found that most of our birthdays fell in the first half of the year and so it helped brighten up the Autumn and early Winter. A year is a very long time for small children, especially when your birthday falls so close to Christmas as Tiarnan's does. It's also another occasion on which to make a child feel special which when you're one of a large clan is very important.
As we've had such a mild winter there was also a rose to pick for the table!
