Kaylee's birthday always sneaks up on us. February 3 sounds like its far enough from the holidays not to be a problem, so its on the back burner. I usually start thinking about the boys birthdays in October before Halloween, then we are getting through Thanksgiving, then Christmas, then New Year's Eve. Then just as I settle into the routine of the new year I realize that Kaylee's birthday is just a couple weeks away.
Now that she's older that's both more and less of a problem. Less of a problem because I don't need to find a cute theme and mail cute invitations (She specifically requested that I stop doing that about 2 years ago), more of a problem because she and her friends are so busy its hard to find a weekend to have a party.
This year it worked out that all but 1 of her friends could attend a party on Saturday night. It seemed perfect. Most would just come to church with us on Sunday morning. We'd rent a few movies, put some food out, and leave them to themselves. (Just what teenagers want).
We called this a "not birthday cake" since Kaylee doesn't like cake, its layers of brownies & rice krispy treat.
Everything was going according to plan until around 10:30 on Saturday morning when Nate vomited and I took his temperature. A sick kid sure has a away of messing up the best laid plans.
I really didn't want to try to reschedule the party. A couple years ago this same thing happened and we weren't able to have Kaylee's party until April! So I needed a Plan B!
Plan B turned out to be calling all the parents to inform them of our germiness. We decided to take the girls out to a restaurant and movie and give the parents the option of having the girls sleep over or go home after the movie.
We quarantined Nate and used a lot of Lysol throughout the house. It turned out he only threw up once in the morning but ran a fever most of the day. 3 of the girls decided to be brave and sleep over.
Not exactly how we had planned it, but party on!
How to Make a Teenage Girl happy? Give her shoes for a birthday present!
2 comments:
I'm glad that Kaylee's birthday party was able to carry on as pretty much planned, and that the sickness didn't seem to spread. What a genius non-birthday cake...love it! And shoes can certainly be the way to a teenage girl's heart. They look cute...but I'd love to see a heel shot! :)
LOVE the non-birthday cake! Scott and I don't like cake either! blech!
I'm glad you found a way to still give that girl a party! Well done! And again, gorgeous cake!
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