September is one crazy month. I’ve managed to celebrate about five different birthdays so far. Some merely required dinner out with friends. One entailed a visit to my sister for a few hours. It was a nice, relaxed visit with passionfruit cheesecake. She does shift work, so it was great we could catch up and that she had the day off. My sweetheart also had the week off for his birthday. We took it easy, went to the local flower festival, had a walk in one of the state parks, had a family dinner. It was great to see him relax.

I was also bridesmaid at my mum’s wedding. I had a fantastic time, getting to wear my gorgeous dress and catch up with lots of old friends of the family. Mum looked wonderful and was clearly very happy.

Ostara is today and after everything that has been happening, I decided to have a very low key celebration. Some less than pleasant weather had me foregoing the ramble in the hills I had planned in favour of some downtime inside.

It cleared up enough for me to have a walk around the front and back yard, as I have been doing lately. The trees all have green shoots and my flower bed is a riot. I picked some irises, bluebells and freesias for my altar to go with the gemstones—moonstone, bloodstone, rose quartz and tourmaline quartz. There’s jasmine oil in the burner.

My mum and stepdad dropped by for a visit this afternoon, having just returned from their honeymoon in Hawaii. They were full of lots of interesting stories and I had a wonderful time just listening to them all.

Tonight I’m off to watch anime with a bunch of friends.