Monkey Party

How fun was this theme for a 5 year old, We had such a great time! vines and monkey dress-up,crafts and great food too!
For more photo's..check out my website!!!
Cheery-o for now!

A Cute Thank you

I was excited to offer one of my party packages to
my daughter's preschool,She is currently in 4th grade,
so it was so great to still support such a great school.
The family that bid on my party and won were so happy!
They called and I will be planning a Monkey party for the cutest little five year old.
The letter on the right is signed by the whole class.
What a wonderful feeling I got from this letter!
I will post pics or you can check out my website,next
week.
I'll keep you posted.


Another reason I have been MIA. I have a Girl Scout troop and we are planning our
yearly camping trip,once all the cookie money was counted!!! They are so excited and my favorite part.It's complete with cabins and 'bathrooms'.I know it's not really camping but I'm not 10 any more!!!

cheery' o for now.

Spring is coming!

It's amazing how much a little sunshine can inspire and excite.
All's been quiet this last momth in the childrens party business.Parents are just coming out of Holiday slump.I know Easter is on its way but it seems to signal 'spring is coming'.With that I think We feel able to plan our upcoming year.Enter a client!!! I just love a brand new party to plan,the expectation of our first meeting,the excitement of picking a theme...I love it!

I am really hoping Alice is in my future, I love all things Mad Hatter, Strawberry Tarts, flamingo's.The list goes on.The last time I did an Alice theme my daughter turned 4. That was quite a few years a go.One of my favorite sites is http://www.jessicaclaire.net

The best Alice party ideas .

Another thing that I have a passion for are Invitations I love this site, very retro
http://www.thepartyparlour.com.au/

New to the blogging world

I started this blog as a sort of way to put down my thoughts and feeling and didn't put much into it as you can probably tell by how many posts I have added.But today I had a wonderful surprise to get my first contact with the blogging world!
Firstly two of my favorite blogger's Natalie from http://littleshindigs.blogspot.com/
and a compliment from Dawn at http://dawnypoo.blogspot.com/
From Not just a mommy!

It's great to see all these moms with a passion for parties out there!
I recently held an Oscar night pyjama party for a few of my gal pals.What a blast and not such a bad award show either!!!

Where Has Childhood Gone?

Last night around 7 p.m., on my way to book club, I drove through the neighborhood I grew up in. It was a lovely spring evening. Clean streets, trees with green buds, pretty cottage-style homes.

Zero kids.

When I was a child growing up there 30 years ago, the first warm, spring night meant one thing: Every kid from every house was out, playing in the street and on the sidewalks. Freeze tag, bikes, kick the can, hide-and-seek.

I know where all the kids were. Same place as mine. Soccer practice. Piano lessons. Tutoring. Or in lock-down because the neighborhood was experiencing a wave of bombings, drive-by shootings and child abductions (not).

Once at book club, one mom insisted that all the neighborhood kids needed to be inside because our world has become very dangerous. That schools forbid kids from walking or biking to or from school. That kids' nonstop extracurricular actitivies are essential for

them to thrive in our highly competitive world. I protested that our particular world -- for instance, my old neighborhood -- has not gotten any more dangerous or competitive in the past 30 years. Several of the moms argued that our world -- let me note that it is a largely white, largely middle class East Coast milieu -- is a far riskier, threatening place than it was in 1975.

Our world is very different -- because we've made it different. Today's parents have changed how we parent. If a majority of parents refuse to let their kids play outside their house, or go to a local park, or walk to school by themselves, then no kids can. Because one kid alone on the sidewalk or at the park is vulnerable (not to mention bored).

Can we agree that American parents -- especially middle- and upper middle-class parents -- have gone collectively crazy? Almost everyone today, myself included, falls into the "extreme parenting" category.

But what I cannot figure out is WHY. Exactly when, and how, did American parents become completely obsessed with making our children's childhoods perfect?

Did you believe you'd be different? That your kids would have zero afters

chool activities besides "go out and play until dinnertime?" What purpose does it serve -- kids or parents -- to micromanage our kids' supposedly most carefree days? And when -- if ever -- will the pendulum swing back?

By Leslie Morgan stanley

This article really hit a nerve for me.I don't know why..maybe having a cold brings back childhood memories of simpler times!!! and I'm talking not that long ago. I grew up in England and I had a great childhood. My Parents wanted nothing big from us not worry about giant issues that I had no control over anyway.Just to be a kind, honest, kid. Respectful and conciderate.

This is my home town church

in England.We used to play in the fields

surrounding the church. I was a Girl Scout and

used to hold the Flag every sunday.