Tea Party

Last week the girls had a just-for-fun tea party. They had gone to one of these by two of their friends back in February and immediately decided they wanted to host one of their own. And of course they presented this idea to me when I was busy and I said something like yeah , yeah, that would be fun, but not today. So Sydney took a look at the calendar and decided that Friday April 8th would be a good day, would that be a good day mom?

Yeah sure sweetie. (While thinking: you'll never actually remember 7 weeks from now...)

Fast forward 6 weeks on a Monday:

Mom, remember how we are having a tea party tomorrow?

What?! That's uh, not tomorrow is it? I thought that was on a Friday.

Oh yeah mom, it's on Friday, you're right.

Whew! At least I had a few days left. Well if she's got the memory to remember something for 6 weeks I'd better do it!

She remembered because she had made invitations (on post-it notes) for all the friends she wanted to invite. There were 15 of them! And that was just Sydney's friends and none of Natalie's. I told her she had to narrow it down, there was no way we could fit that many girls around our table. This of course resulted in disappointment which resulted in tears which resulted in an ornery mommy. Must we cry over everything?? We finally narrowed it down and added a few friends for Natalie, but still ended up with a pretty full house for the afternoon - 11 girls (12 if you count Camryn, which I do). It was a lot of fun and I had a good time making cute little tea party goodies and getting out my tablecloth (which has never been used in all 8 years of our marriage).

Sorry for the slightly blurry picture. Sometimes I guess I need to just bite the bullet and turn my flash on.

I'm glad it was a cold day. Perfect for hot chocolate, since we weren't going to have real tea. This was a good little warm-up party. Birthday season is nearly upon us! All of our kids have birthdays within a 6 week span. It's going to be party central around here!

Camryn really enjoyed the party too. And the other girls loved giving her more treats and taking turns holding her and carrying her around. This girl gets plenty of attention!