This past weekend was the first of our action packed weekends in May. Since Sarah's birthday, my birthday and Mother's Day all fall in this month, it's a little stressful for Charlie and filled with lots of celebration. I had originally scheduled Sarah's birthday party next weekend, since her birthday is on a Saturday this year, but Charlie told me he had something special planned for me on Saturday and I needed to change it. I was happy and annoyed all at the same time. Luckily I had not sent out the invitations yet and it was super easy to change so everything went smoothly. The only thing that stressed me out was that nobody in this world knows how to RSVP to anything so I had to hunt a few people down to find out if I needed two or three lanes for bowling.
That's what Sarah picked for her party this year, bowling. We don't bowl a lot, but that is one consistent activity we do as a family and we usually have a pretty good time. So we invited all the girls in her class and one neighbor and then slowly, painfully waited for all the RSVPs to come in. Luckily with the one friend that we let Andy bring so he didn't annoy the girls, Andy and Amanda we had exactly enough people before having to add a lane. Everybody had a good time, or so it seemed, they had pizza and cake, bowled and opened presents and then it was over. Wonderful. One of the most low key, easy parties we have ever done. Not as awesome as the glow-in-the-dark gymnastics party we did last year, but perfect for this year.
Saturday afternoon the girls played with Sarah's presents while I made cookies and Andy played at a friend's house until Charlie took him to yet another birthday party. The girls were exhausted by about 7p so it ended up working out pretty well. Sunday morning we got up and took the girls to swimming and then did a few last minute things for a small BBQ we were having. I have a couple of high school classmates that live nearby that I really wasn't close with but knew and haven't even seen since we graduated. We decided since we still don't have any friends that we need to start somewhere so we invited them over. They turned out to be really cool people. We also invited a family that just moved from the town where we lived in Texas. We didn't do anything socially with them there, but our kids went to the same preschool and I know how hard it is to make friends so though they could use a break from all the unpacking. Charlie also invited a friend from work that used to work with him at the airline.
So a small group, but still entertaining and everybody seemed to get along pretty well. I forgot how much we love to entertain and have people over, even people we don't know that well. I've missed it more than I realize. Sunday afternoon after everyone left Charlie played some Wii with the girls while I went on a nine mile walk. I haven't really walked since I rolled my ankle on Easter and since I am supposed to do a 1/2 marathon in two weeks I decided I better get a few miles in. It wasn't pretty, but I got it done.
This weekend is Sarah's real birthday and my surprise (which I thought was for Mother's Day but apparently is for my birthday which is the following weekend) and three baseball games for Andy. A few days later my niece comes in and then my brother-in-law. It will be crazy, but I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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