…I am sitting here reading blogs and eating my breakfast (the kids ate with Papa while I went running….oh, I love when he is on vacation). Today is Wendy’s party. It is a Medieval Castle Party complete with castle cake with battlements and drawbridge and a moat, jousting, a knight’s quest, and crown decorating. It should be fun as long as it doesn’t rain—I don’t know how to host jousting in my house. Frankly, Wendy has so many friends that we had to narrow it down to two groups: neighborhood and school friends. Apologies to those whose kids we left out. I also don’t know how to handle jousting gracefully with a 40-kid party.
My birthday is on Friday. Wendy and Papa bought presents on Saturday during their daddy daughter date. Wendy promptly wrapped them in silkies and keeps leaving them on my pillow. Papa won’t let me open them, much to her dismay. I’m turning 36. I wonder when that happened.
We are leaving at week’s end for our grand summer adventure which includes stops in suburban Detroit, their grandiose thrift stores (though maybe they won’t be so hot this year with all those car execs losing all that money), a lakeshore somewhere in Vermont, hopefully a few Green Mountaintops, China Town and the subway–NYC and other places that we used to haunt in the days when all this was just a dream, Granny and Grampy’s house and everywhere in between.
Now I must be off to fashion a lance and add the drawbridge (thank you, Laura, for the recipe…worked just great….all four batches…sigh…).
40 kids…you are a bit crazy.
Wish her happy birthday for us! It sounds like an absolutely fabulous party–trust you to be able to pull it off!