A wonderful cookout and birthday celebration!

My birthday celebration continued into Sunday when my husband threw me a birthday party cookout! All my kids and grandkids came. What a wonderful time to see them all together again. We haven’t had too many get-togethers this year yet. The weather hasn’t cooperated.

I promised my readers I would share the first zucchini that we picked from our plant. It is the dark green one on the left and next to it are two store-bought ones. What a difference! I made a zucchini casserole with the three and it was a hit. Everyone loved it!

Zucchini casserole
Drunken chickens
Delicious birthday Strawberry Cream cake by Piro’s Bakery

It turned out to be a warm day without rain! Hurray! But the kids stayed inside to eat while the grownups ate outside. Everyone was happy!

Check out my recipes at Janice’s Kitchen Corner for the Drunken Chicken and Zucchini Casserole.

I won’t share any family photos to respect their privacy.

I received some lovely gifts for which I am truly thankful and for their generosity to remember their mother/grandmother. They are all so precious to me!

It’s funny how time flies by and in the blink of an eye I am so much older. I remember when my mother was 75. She only lived for close to three more years. I also remember my grandmother’s 75th birthday party. She lived to be 100.5 years. I hope I favor her so I will have more time to continue to complete all that I have started with my writing. There is still much to do and I look forward to do it all, God willing.

Thank you so much for stopping by to read this post. I pray that you are all doing well no matter how old or young you are. Remember that age is just a number. In order to stay young, we must think young and most of all keep our mind and bodies active always.

Come back again soon! There’s more to share with you about my upcoming book and whatever else pops into my overcrowded head.

Blessings & Hugs! Stay Safe, Stay Well and God Bless!

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Janice Spina aka J.E. Spina

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About jjspina

Janice is a multi-award-winning author with 50 books: 23 children's books for PS-Gr 4, 12 middle-grade/preteen, four young adult books, all written by Janice Spina, and nine novels, and two short story collections written by J.E. Spina. She is also a writer of poetry, blogger, avid reader, reviewer, copy editor and supporter of her fellow authors. Janice has always loved writing and started young writing poetry, then stories. Her books have received 50 Book Awards and a few finalists awards, and many 5-star reviews from Readers’ Favorite Book Awards and on Amazon. All Janice's books are available on Amazon.com in paperback, eBook and audiobook formates, B&N and other online book sites. Her hobbies are crocheting, sewing, walking to keep fit, hula hooping, tap dancing, going to dinner with her husband, and spending time with family and friends. Janice loves to hear from readers and appreciates reviews. Sign up on her blog http://jemsbooks.blog for updates of her books. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband who is her illustrator and cover creator and two tanks of fish.
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8 Responses to A wonderful cookout and birthday celebration!

  1. How amazingly wonderful! ❤

    • jjspina's avatar jjspina says:

      It was! I don’t celebrate my birthday normally with any of the family I am usually too busy celebrating everyone else’s birthdays. Now I am slowing down with the parties since the family keeps growing. I send e-cards and gift cards to everyone and call and sing happy birthday to them. They like that! 🤣🥰

  2. What a lovely birthday celebration, Janice. The dish looks lovely.

  3. noelleg44's avatar noelleg44 says:

    You are one gal who knows how to celebrate a birthday!!

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