Birthday wishes, website building and a newborn baby
That title sure does make my plate sound full and to be honest, it is!
Yesterday, 30 April, 2010, marked the 17th year since the birth of my eldest daughter, Sharquille. She was labelled 16 and pregnant for a long time, but now, shes just 17 and a single Mum.
Sharquille and her son LeSiah
We spent most of yesterday preparing for Sharquille’s first night out since the birth of LeSiah but the day was definitely marked with food and celebrations … my portion was eating the food, I left Sharquille to her celebrations!
Amid the girls dolling up for a night on the town, I was glued to my PC trying to get the business design for our website up and running. Im almost there, just need to complete some finer touches and round it off with some quality content. We’re going full steam ahead on our own e-tail store. The logo took the least time (most of the thanks go to my younger brother, Tuna), the sourcing of the products took even less, but the website seems to be definitely taking the majority of the time. I guess that makes sense, because if we were to open up a physical store, the hardest work would be to stock the store and open.
Our business logo
And while every one was busy going about their own lives, there was my grandson, in the land of nod, having his own “champagne wishes and caviar dreams”. Well, not quite, but im sure he was doing the newborn version, Grammie was doing the Lifestyles of the Rich and famous version.
LeSiah has really settled in well to our household and he is just a delight. A really good baby for his Mum and the easiest of children to be baby sat, although id have to say that all that credit goes to his Uncle Isiah, who stayed home yesterday from his usual Friday night of social butterflying and clubbing to watch his nephew. It seemed to be a good night for the both of them, LeSiah watching his eyelids and Isiah glued to Facebook. I believe there were some mutterings of Isiah finishing a Uni assignment but that Facebook is definitely an indication of the generation our teenagers have become a part of!
LeSiah and his Uncle Isiah doing what they do best!
Toast, I did to Sharquille’s 17th birthday, while flicking backwards and forwards between Dreamweaver and Photoshop. Im not much of a drinker, infact, I drink very little alcohol, maybe once or twice a year … I got over the alcohol stage some 10 years ago. But this bottle of Barcardi and Lime was prompted after seeing the attire the girls were leaving the house in!! They looked absolutely gorgeous and definitely not innocent, if you catch my drift. The LBD (Little Black Dress) was in full force with the complimentary 5 inch heels, smatterings of eye shadow and lipstick and of course the perfectly straightened hair! Leo played sober driver/Chaperone and started the night with the Police pulling him up right outside our front gate. I went down to check out the drama, only to find that he had been pulled up for backing out of a driveway … slightly fishy reason for pulling him up, but they were soon on their way to the land of strobe lights and flashy dresses!
So that was Friday night, all in all, a nice introduction to our weekend (=
