A Very Merry UnBirthday

Yesterday we celebrated Maddie's 11th birthday. Yes, it is true, she was born in July, but as she has pointed out in increasingly petulant tones, her bad-nasty-evil parents keep dragging her out of town for the summer and she never gets to celebrate it with her friends. So we agreed that we owed her a party and we were intending to make it a half birthday and do something in January. Didn't happen. Neither did February. So when do we plan it? We celebrated during our very own McFarland Birthday Sweeps Week. Yep. My birthday was last Saturday (very lovely, thank you, maybe I'll post a picture of my darling pedicure) and Robchen's is this Friday (he is being most pestiferous about presents, but I'm going to apply firm pressure tomorrow). SO on Tuesday we had Maddie and five friends out to Color Me Mine where you paint your heart's desire on their ceramic pieces, they fire them for you and viola! You're done. This was especially nice because they decorated, they cleaned up, they had invitations and thank you notes, and Betsy stayed with the boys (we didn't need three small bulls in this china shop). It was wonderful. We had pizza and cupcakes and watched Annie Get Your Gun which was surprisingly popular with the girls. Then we took the girls home and were finished. It was so nice not to have to use my brain on this one. Maddie and friends were very thoughtful about their pieces and designs and we can't wait to see the finished products!
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Zina said…
Happy unbirthday, Maddie! It looks like it was fun.

We only let our kids have a "friend" birthday party every other year but of course that year fell when I had a new baby, so we put on two parties in the month after Hazel was born. (I sort of survived and it was kind of fun.)
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jenlinmin said…
Brilliant! I can't believe that cute little toddler I still see in my mind's eye could be eleven!

I just had to write a quick note about a "Myth Busters" we saw on TV where they "busted" the bull in a china shop idiom. They placed some shelves of china pretty tightly within a bull pen and had the bulls run around. Contrary to the popular saying, the bulls actually did NOT topple the shelves (maybe only one or two of the dozen or so). Just a little fyi for your next dinner party ;)
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