We had afternoon tea at McDonald's with our extended family to celebrate grandads birthday. We always celebrate birthdays with a get together in Marty's family, which I love. I like singing happy birthday loudly in McDonald's and watching the cousins play and the adults chat. It's family being family.
And then we went straight from there to spend time with our other family - our mishpacha, our church family. Mishpacha is the Hebrew word for the community/village/tribe/church family. It's the word that Moses used when he told his people to teach the children - not the parents, but the community of people. And that's why I love my mishpacha. Because they really do love us like family. Kate and jaimee giggled and grinned as Mr Hamish chased them around the hot pools, and squealed and laughed with their mate Chiara as they dared each other to dunk in the cold pool. The teenagers happily joined the younger kids at the dinner table as us parents enjoyed a good chat at ours (just too many of us for one table sadly!)
Thank you both our families for a lovely afternoon. 
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