If only my day had been like this

Best thing ever... if only I had superhero tampons. Especially today. odditycollector tells it like it should be.

Sort of a weird up and down day for me, colored by back pain and various frustrations and worries and semi-private freakouts but then nice that I finished a work thing even if a small one, and it was kind of a convivial day so I felt strangely better about things, though still a little out of my depth... and then Moomin's party was fabulous even though it was only 3 kids. My feelings about that size being right for him having fun was pretty much right. It was as much as I could handle, personally. They all played and it still felt birthdayish and special. The flying bird was a hit. We shot at it with foam arrows. Rook and Moomin had made an ice age and a rain forest setting. I threw together two treasure maps. Dragonboy's dad hung out for a bit and made the most excellent woolly mammoth and sabre-toothed tiger noises. The test tubes were a huge hit. They mixed 3 kinds of juice, sugar, crushed strawberries, chocolate syrup, and coke. Presents. Cake. Playing with legos and the catapult and some godzilla monsters. They watched episode 1 of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Swords. Moments of naked dancing about and waving around of naughty bits and declarations of giggly rudeness. (At which we rolled our eyes and sighed and acted like grownups and told them to get dressed... and then I ran out of the room and cracked up laughing where I couldn't be seen.) More playing.. pjs, some whining, the porcupine poem from Dirty Beasts read aloud. I think they're all asleep now.

Comments

[Tony (from kiwiland)]

Wow. What an excellent birthday you laid on. Something like that for a child, immediately exciting and also when they grow up, such a great memory of how much their Mum did for them with love, is priceless.
I know that sounds trite and cliched, but reading it made me compare it with the loving crafty magic birthdays my big sis used to lay on for my twin and me. And how much they mean to me in retrospect.

(I feel like I ought to go back and join this narrative at an earlier date, I like your style but of course I am going "Moomin?" "Rook?" :P )