While I was organizing my photos today I came across this picture of my birthday cake…well, it’s actually chocolate pavlova. I wanted to do something different this year and everyone agreed that a chocolate pavlova with whipped cream and strawberries sounded wonderful. For my birthday dinner (on March 21) we went out to an Indian restaurant…a tradition I’ve been keeping alive for a few years now to celebrate the fact that I was born in New Delhi, India. Sometimes, when the stars really line up, my mother-in-law, Evelyn Jones, who was also born in India (Bombay, now called Mumbai, her birthdate is April 7), happens to be visiting us wherever we are in the world…Thailand, the Philippines, and Malaysia are a few places she’s traveled to…and we celebrate our birthdays together in an Indian restaurant, with a special toast to India, where our lives began.
Oh…and here’s Pucci, my beloved blond, seven-year-old labradoodle, helping me open my gifts while ingesting bits of yellow tissue paper. He’s soooo cute with the gold bow around his neck. 
