I think it’s pretty obvious that I’ll use any excuse to celebrate with my girls. I decided long ago that just celebrating birthdays wouldn’t give me enough opportunities to throw all the parties that I want to throw. Two kids at roughly twelve birthday parties each (and I know the twelve might be stretching it…I’m thinking 12-year-old Gracie might not want a unicorn and rainbow party, but I’m wishful thinking) gives me only 25 parties. Gracie doesn’t really “do” parties – she’d rather just hang out at home and Abigail’s parties are generally these huge backyard affairs that we have ever two years, because it takes twenty-three months to recover from them. So, what’s a mom who loves to plan parties to do when she doesn’t have enough parties to plan?
Well, I figured I had two options. 1)Have about thirty more children or 2)Celebrate everything! I bet you can figure which option won, can’t you?
Friday was Dr. Seuss’ birthday and we celebrated with Seussisms all day long (“A person’s a person no matter how small! The people who mind don’t matter and the people who mind don’t matter!”) and for dinner, we had green deviled eggs and ham sliders. The ham slider recipe was from Annie’s Eats. They were so good, we’re having them for dinner again tonight! I made Cat In The Hat Cupcake Push Pops – they didn’t turn out was cute as I’d have liked, but the girls loves them and I think that’s all the matters! I decorated with some Dr. Seuss bulletin board cut-outs and Gracie & Abigail laughed out loud when they walked into the kitchen. Over dinner I told them some Dr. Seuss trivia (that Theodor Seuss Geisel didn’t have any children of his own and in fact wasn’t even particularly fond of children).
Was it a little bit of work? Sure, but not much more than a regular dinner and the smiles on the girls’ faces made it all worthwhile.