The Time of My Life: musings of a mommy-at-law: Birthdays and Bunnies and Burnout

Yall! I can NOT seem to stay on top of the blogging anymore. We have had a lovely, busy, busy spring so far. And, now it is May(hem). I don’t know when May became the new December (last I checked, October was the new December), but I think I started around the time the kids started school and sports. Because May? Dang! We are still doing spring sports (which I realize I still have not posted pictures of), but now we’ve added swimming – purportedly 5 days a week -- on top of that.

It is enough to make a grown woman cry.

But, in the midst of all that, we’ve managed to have a pretty rockin’ 5th birthday party and a very nice Easter.

Pressley’s birthday coincided with the very late Easter this year. Which meant a very busy Easter weekend. We kicked it off on Saturday with Evan’s baseball game and the annual Easter egg hunt at Briarlake. We were planning to then go to Pressley’s soccer game (which started 10 minutes after the egg hunt; 20 minutes away…), but I don’t know what we were thinkin’. Something had to give.

When we got home from the Easter egg hunt, we got busy preparing for Pressley’s party. She wanted a Rock Star theme, so we rolled out a red carpet down the front stairs, put up a stage and a back drop in the sitting room, hired teenagers to do hair and make-up, and bought a Wii Just Dance Kids game for the girls to jam with after they got all dolled up. It turned out super cute. Boring old mommy had wanted to do the party at the gymnastics gym where all we’d have to do was show up with a cake. But, Pressley was insistent on the Rock Star theme, and I will now admit that it was worth the extra trouble, because it was memorable. And because she loved every minute of it.

I feel we have made up for having her birthday party at Monkey Joe’s last year, where we had to keep herding her away from the Monkey before she saw him and flipped out.

The stage is set...

Miss P on her red carpet

Miss P on her stage

The birthday girl having her make-up done

Nail time!

Time for cake!

All the rock stars - all done up

Just Dance!

And dance some more...

Glam cousins

Sunday was a lovely Easter, but not at all laid back. We went to early church (after the Easter Bunny had made an appearance) and out for a quick lunch, and then came back home to get ready to host the family for Easter dinner and another egg hunt with the cousins. I told the family that I would be happy to host, but that they should not expect that I would have cleaned up much of the party aftermath, and that would just have to be ok. Thankfully, they didn’t seem to care. If they did, they hid it well, because, hey…at least they didn’t have to clean up their houses.

I kid. They would have done it in a heartbeat, but our neighborhood green space is just such a great place to hunt eggs; it is hard to envision it anywhere else.