Birthday Time

The shopping experience in Pucallpa leaves much to be desired. When it comes to shopping for birthdays you find yourself scratching your head and wondering what in the world would they like from the Wikito. That would be the market that has every cheap gadget available. Cheap is key though. It might last the day in our house. We have been fortunate this year to have been able to shop online and have different people hand-carry gifts down for the kids. It takes planning but it's been fun. However, I didn't know I would be able to do that for each of them so I decided early on that I would do my best to make them each a fancy cake and stress the importance and fun that just spending the day with friends brings. Not that they didn't get any gifts from friends but this year I didn't want them to desire a "big party for all the gifts". We've had three parties now in the last three months and I'm glad they are over. It's a ton of work doing cakes. I wouldn't say I'm especially gifted but I tried and the outcome wasn't that bad. This last party though the cakes were literally melting away but once they were cut they got eaten pretty quick.

I'm glad for my 2010 plan for parties - I think they've sensed a certain freedom in not EXPECTING the gifts but being delighted with what they did get. And there was no lack for receiving for sure. One more party to go but I have until November to think up a good one. It just might take me that long. This mommy is partied out.