Happy birthday, Shoshanna!

Yesterday was Shoshanna's birthday, which as you can imagine posed a bit of a problem - it could really only be held on Shabbos, since today is Tisha B'Av, and the rest of the week we have other plans (less than 4 days to go before we go to Israel!). So Friday I went shopping for cake, and came back with a bunch of stuff. And yesterday we made sure to get up on time so we could set up the cake and refreshments. At 4:30 PM, we started having guests come over (I consider myself lucky - I only had to run up and down the stairs twice lol), and we had a wonderful time. There were plenty of people, but it wasn't so crowded that you couldn't make a good conversation with other people. And we were both quite happy that not only mama, Erez and Chowav came, but also that Chaim and his girlfriend Bianca came as well (though a bit late - the Coca Cola was gone by that time!). All in all, it was, as we would say in Dutch, a 'gezellig' time. Here's hoping that Shosh's upcoming year will be filled with nothing but happiness and simchas!