Yesterday morning I worked. I’ve sort of lost track of what’s extra and what’s not but I seem to be working every Saturday that I’m not away in a tent this summer! It was fine, I finally managed to finish my display for the Team Read, this summers reading game which kicks off tomorrow.
I came home and we set off to Ali & J’s for Freya’s seventh birthday party. Much as I adore Freya and birthday parties her turning seven messes up the whole 5,6,7 thing that Scarlett, Freya and Davies had going on which was just so nice and tidy. It will now take Davies and Scarlett having birthdays to put it straight again which isn’t for ages and will also mean I have children who are 8 and 6 which I am in total denial about the possibility of! :lol
The party was fab. I enjoyed being ‘the friend who knows where all the tea making components are’, Ady took charge of the one person at a time trampoline rota, Scarlett hilariously announced to Ali ‘I’d like to go outside, are there any rules?’ and Davies appeared to be being lovely every time I saw him. He had some idea to convert the energy from the trampoline bouncing into electricity and various other little insights I caught the end of through the day. We met the partner of one of the HEors we see a fair bit of which was nice, I like seeing people’s other halves and seeing whether they are like I expected them to be :). We saw a couple of other HE friends and some of Ali’s other mates too.It was a good mix of attendees and considering the amount of them it was all very smooth and enjoyable. I say this with the airy manner of someone who mostly sat down chatting and drinking Smirnoff Ice of course while others ran around after all the children 😆 :lol:.
There was a treasure hunt and party bags which all netted fab prizes of the sort I used to get myself at parties including stretchy men, wooden pigs, fortune telling fish and more. Towards the end when only a few of us were left Freya brought out her Rainbow Dash Fizzy Surprise drinks of her own invention which were very well recieved by the children and brought on further sugar-rush craziness :lol:. We stayed awhile after the rest of the partygoers had gone for tea and coffee and bubble making which was just lovely :).
We came home via Asda where Davies got some Ben 10 socks and Scarlett got an armful of bangles. I’ve been wearing an armful of bangles and she’s been desperate for her own and Asda had child-size ones. So they both got further spoilt in addition to party going :). A late tea for them followed by a pile of books and an even later bedtime. Ady cooked a two course meal which we’d planned but not looked at the clock for so I ended up falling asleep on the sofa after huge amounts of food and staggered to bed before midnight hence yesterdays blog today.