While the boys were off having their adventure at the pediatrician’s, Ane was having her long-awaited slumber party!  Scheduling conflicts and sickness whittled down the guests to only two girls – Lina (Ane’s good buddy since they were three years old) and Essie (a school friend who she has known since kindergarten).  With only three […]

Today is the day of Ane’s birthday slumber party… which just got decimated by two girls falling sick.  Oh, well.  Even Ane realizes that there’s nothing you can do about that.  Even one friend spending the night is still a party! Anyway, it put me in mind of Ane’s very first “slumber party”… which was […]

We threw a birthday party amidst all this Christmasing, too! Ane’s birthday theme this year was the movie “Brave” – but after I told her that I really couldn’t make fondant bows and arrows for cupcakes, she opted for flowers instead.  (I am not a professional cake decorator, kid!)  The colors were purple and turquoise, […]

Ane had yet another birthday party to go to on Sunday afternoon for yet another classmate.  This one was at the Lynnwood Roll-A-Way, the roller skating rink.  She’s been to other birthday parties there in the past, so as soon as we pulled into the parking lot, her memory clicked.  “Oh, I remember this place!” […]