Techno challenged!

So this post is for all of my e-mail subscribers.  For some reason I cannot get my feedburner from my new blog - Runamukmom.com to work.  And, of course, I am too technologically savvy to figure out how to fix it.  I'll need to ask the children to work on that one for me!

In the meantime, instead of re-posting here, I'm giving you a link to the post and you can check it out.  Here are the link and a few photo highlights just to pique your curiosity!  Enjoy!

Let it glow, let it glow . . . 

It's time to SPAAAA. . . . RTAY!!!

So mommy learned this week why when she was working (outside the home, that is), she SWORE she would not host parties at her house and she would pay any amount necessary for someone else to do the party.

The Id turned 7 and, of course, since she is going on 16, she wanted a spa party.  So mommy thought “how hard can this be?” some nail polish, some hair braids, some cucumbers on the eyes, I got this, no sweat!

Well, we all know how this is going to turn out, so at the very end of the post I’ll show you what the party would have looked like on Pinterest.  But first, I’ll share the behind the scenes version that would get mommy kicked off Pinterest:

Abracadabra . . .

. . . POOF, you’re SECOND child is now one year shy of being a decade old too! (Warning . . . the following contains more cuss words than usual.  Mommy's not really sure why.  Maybe it's been building up.  She did drink 4 days this week).

WTF?! . . .when did my kids get so old?!  And, why have I not learned to stop asking the Ego (the middle child) what theme she wants for her birthday party?!  Last year it was Tom and Jerry.  Seriously, a cartoon that hasn’t seen primetime since I was in the third grade?!  This year it was Wizards of Waverly Place.  At least this year was a bit more mainstream, but girlfriend pushed my creativity limits because apparently no one does these kinds of parties.  Just ask Party City or Oriental Trading! 

First she asked to go to Medieval Times.  So instead of NOT cleaning my house,  NOT planning one single moment of the party, and sitting back and enjoying some good old fashioned entertainment. I had the brilliant idea that I would talk her into not just a party, but a sleepover!  I have GOT to stop drinking so much.

So, mommy just made sh*t up, as she’s been known to do.  At the very bottom of the post is a list of the things I did along with the spells/rhymes to go along with them.  Unless you plan on pulling a rabbit out of your @$& . . . I mean, hosting a Wizards of Waverly Place party, you can stop reading after lesson #4!

Here’s what mommy learned about magically bringing your child’s birthday wishes come true (and pulling a few surprises out of her @$&):

What do Tom and Jerry, Sharks and Tie-dye have in common?!

They are the crazy things that mommies do for their children’s birthday parties.  The Ego turned 8 yesterday.  But, guess where her bad mommy was?!  In a tent, by herself, at the Girl Scout headquarters in Balboa Park learning how to tent camp!  8 years ago I was in the hospital laboring to have that child and eight years later I was laboring to learn how to create new and different experiences for her!  Because I was going to be a bad mommy and miss the actual day, I delayed her birthday party by a day and asked her what theme she wanted for her birthday.  Her answer . . . Tom and Jerry!  Are you f*#&ing kidding me?!  From all the 400 themes she could have chosen she picks the ONE that requires everything to be mail order and I only had 5 days to get it here.

As I was trying to figure out how I was going to manufacture Tom and Jerry swag in 5 days or less I thought about my friend Tammie who sent me an e-mail a few weeks ago to share with me her family fun.  She had baked a Shark cake for her son's birthday!  This is what Tammie’s cake looked like and it inspired me to think that I could make a Tom and Jerry cake! 

Tammie's family fun lesson learned "make sure you take pictures right after you make the cake in case your 8 month old doggy decides to bite off the fin"!  I HATE when that happens.  I'm so glad to know I'm not the only one it happens to.

Here’s what I learned about thinking that you can do something that’s WAAAAY above your pay grade for your child’s birthday; and, just for giggles, at the end I’ll share how my shenanigans have inspired other mothers to torture themselves as well:

Hodge Podge Birthdays and carpeticures

Every mommy knows that when you are pregnant with that first little peanut you have delusions about how your child will act, how you will dress them cutsie and how they will be perfect little angels.  After 9 years and three of the craziest, funniest, loveyest (yes, I made that up), kids, I now know that “perfection” means you take it day by day and most of the time you just  go with it; if you can laugh about it and document it to torture your kids later, all the better!  Which brings me to today’s family fun.  Let’s start with a riddle . . . What do you get when you put Tinkerbell, Tangled and Scooby Doo together?  Yep, that’s right . . . Reese’s birthday party!

Here’s what I learned about giving a 4 year old too many choices and not having the energy to put your foot down: