Last July we celebrated our 40th anniversary. It was a simple yet wonderful evening. Our two boys and their families came over for dinner and surprised us with 40 balloons! Given the grandies are only 5, 3 and 14 months at the time we had lots of fun playing with 40 balloons. The kids loved them and so did we. They lasted floating around the house for another two weeks. Overall, the best thing about it was the simplicity of the celebration. We didn’t need to go out to a fancy restaurant and invite lots of people, just immediate family and a lovely dinner at our home.

I watch a lot of celebrating on social media these days and they are way over the top! Everyone seems to be trying to outdo each other so that they can get that social media attention rather than focusing on the reason they are celebrating in the first place. I remember seeing a photo of an older lady at the fence of a big parade. Everyone around her had their phones up trying to get that special picture yet she was standing there, watching, taking it all in – celebrating that moment. Why have we got away from this? Yes, I know it’s nice to have a photo to remember moments by, but it seems that they have taken over and we no longer tend to enjoy the moment itself.

I know when we toured Canada and the USA in 2019, I showed lots of pictures on Instagram but not of us – just inspiration for future works. I was asked where were the pictures of you two? Well, I knew we were there so didn’t need to be reminded of that. My focus was the inspiration of architecture, colour, texture etc and I did use those photos for my Cloth in Common Round 2 prompts and that’s the way I celebrated that trip.

So, there are all sorts of ways we can celebrate from elaborate to simple…….now to wait for the reveal to see how I am going to interpret this prompt?