Wow! I meant to write on my blog every week, if not twice a week, and somehow a few weeks have gone by before I’ve realised. Sorry about that! A few weeks ago we celebrated Emily’s 5th birthday, bless her! Every year, my husband and I promised ourselves (or he insisted, I should say) we would not have a birthday party or at least we wouldn’t spend something like 500,00 Euros for it (like we've done all previous years!). But, you know, we’ve fallen into the spiral of these pla