August!!! The Leos' and the Virgos' Celebration!! Which also mean that I will have a hole in my pocket soon!!

Well, actually I sorta miss birthdays, especially birthdays in Switzerland. Those birthdays celebrated there was the most wonderful birthdays that I have experienced... the celebration actually started before the big day. We were asked, mind you, ASKED to list down our Wish-list. You could wish for anything in the world (material things)...the list can be as short as one wish or as long as infinity wishes! You won't get everything of course, but hey...it sounded like santa on your birthday!

I still remember celebrating Sara's birthday. It was just 2 weeks after I arrived in the family and I was extremely excited. Besides, it was her 18th birthday. A birthday that symbolises freedom and adulthood, the day that she can begin to sign all legal documents and need not permissions from parents to do anything; it also meant that she has to be responsible for everything she does, and have to learn how to support herself financially.

Mutti baked cake for her, got her a lot of presents, and after 12 am, she was not allow to come out from the room. Mutti and Daddy would set up a table in the living room. All her prezzie (most of the stuff from the wish-list) filled the little table, with her birthday cakes. I could remember Mutti telling me, there must be 5 things on the birthday table : Birthday cake, presents, flowers, chocolate or something sweet, and candles...and all of the 5 things were laid nicely. It was soooo sweet and unforgetable. Mutti would plan this for days, and she wouldn't miss a single thing. After 4 and the half years, I could still remember the table very clearly. Sara had hers next to the winter garden, and I had mine next to the fireplace!

The next morning, we all had to wake up early: we sang birthday songs, ate the cakes, open the prezzie and also read all the cards...then off everyone went....

That's what I love about birthdays...simple, sentimental and yet meaningful! I am waiting for my next birthday in Switzerland!