The Big 40

DH turned 40 this past week. He told me that he didn't want to have anyone over to our house or to do anything big so the kids and I told him that we would just have a small family party at our house, just us and a family friend. What we didn't tell him that was that we were planning a party for him at a friend's house a few days later.

We told him it was a "music night" at our good friend's home so he was pretty excited about getting to play his dulcimer with the other musicians. Besides DH's dulcimer there was a banjo, a mandolin, three violins, a penny whistle and a bowed psaltry. He was very surprised but he did enjoy himself. It wasn't a big gathering either, just 4 families. Of course between those four families there were 26 children present so maybe it wasn't so small afterall...