Glutton for punishment (Or life's too short!)
Well, I must be a glutton for punishment, as one outdoor birthday party for my son turned into two indoor ones, thanks to the appalling weather!
Still, shattered though I am now, at least they are over and the house in one piece - just! I have to say though, that I'm glad I didn't try to do the full 16 energy and party food-full children inside.
It feels like ages since I've read or written. Though it has really only been a few days, they have been so full of party organising that I seem to have lost all idea of time! Anyway, now I have space to think again, my main thought has been "Life's too short."
Funnily enough, I don't mean the party when I say that, as the kids had a fantastic time. But one of my friends has just found out her mother-in-law has multiple secondary brain cancer, another couple of once good friends no longer really talk and try to avoid each other because of a misunderstanding that got out of control, I have also been reading the ongoing fuss about public viewing on the main writelink site and listening on the news to stories about today's flooding. I suppose some of these thoughts would probably fit under the resources poetry theme of judgement, if I had the emotional energy write now to turn them into something worth reading!
Anyway, in the spirit of life's too short, I'm going to stop writing about it and get on with it - for now at least!
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We had to pick up our granddaughter from a birthday party the parents organised at our local leisure centre. When we popped our heads around the party room to check we'd come to the right place, all the little four and five year olds were sitting around a table eating. Just as if they were at school and very subdued if you can imagine that.
Ten minutes later they were doing a conga led by a party helper provided by the centre. The kids were all wide eyed, and yes, still silent but with bemused expressions and with the usual two or three bewildered laggards at the end. It was all very organised, but I had to wonder did they enjoy it? Things have come a long way from jelly, tinned peaches and blancmange, Cadbury's chocolate biscuits, a couple of sedate games and then home.
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