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Birthday Visit

Published on March 8, 2010 By spyderkl

School Girl had her birthday visit with C & M yesterday. She had a wonderful time. It was near their home this time, at a humongous Family Fun Center. There’s a center with the same name near us, except this was easily twice as big as the one at home. At least. It was complete [...]

Can’t Think of a Title Today

Published on February 19, 2010 By spyderkl

So. Yesterday we got a phone call from C, asking about plans for the Girl’s birthday. (For the 3 of you I haven’t told, she’s having a party with her friends here; very small and very, very girly. Ze girly and I, we are not friends. Very anxious.) We made plans to go to a [...]

Happy, happy birthday in a hot bath…

Published on March 9, 2009 By spyderkl

Well, the long-postponed birthday party has come and gone. Sadly, not everybody who was invited could make it (and we only invited about 1/3 of School Girl’s class) last weekend, but we did have 5 kids show up. We got through the ring-toss game, the fizzy lemonade/CO2 demonstration, cupcakes (apparently I shouldn’t have bothered with [...]

Friday Random 10: Do-over weekend edition

Published on March 6, 2009 By spyderkl

Hopefully this will work…I’ll be busy today, so I’ve got a couple of posts backed up and ready to go. I think. By 6PM, we should be waving goodbye to the last of the 6 7-year-olds tearing up the house helping School Girl celebrate the birthday that she was too sick to enjoy last week. [...]

Birthday Weekend Blues

Published on March 2, 2009 By spyderkl

Well, at least School Girl had an eventful birthday. On Thursday afternoon, I got a call from Evil Dad. “Where’ve you been? The school’s been trying to call you – School Girl’s sick and needs to come home.” Sure enough, I went over there and found a very pale, icy cold School Girl sitting in [...]