Jubilee Party

On Saturday we got our red, white and blue on for a jubilee party at a home ed friend's house.  I was so proud of us all as we all set off smart and co-ordinating for the party.
Our hostess had put so much effort into decorating both house and garden and it looked beautiful.  By happy coincidence my mum had spent a year sewing bunting for her 60th birthday party which just happened to be red, white (with coloured polka dots) and blue, so we were able to make good contribution to the decorations and my mum was so excited that it was being used. 

  

The food was also fantastic, I meant to get a picture of it before the hungry hoards dived in but didn't manage it.  I did get this huge plate of cakes that Toby somehow thought that he was going to manage to polish off all by himself! He has always felt that he needed to have lots in order to have enough and today seemed like a good day to indulge that  - as there was plenty of cake since mum had gone to Iceland (just had to get that in).  He made a valiant attempt at the cake but I think in the end he admitted defeat and asked for some help with his cake mountain. 

   

Stories were read, music was played and memories of fun and togetherness were made.

Three red, white and blue children playing pass the parcel





We needed to go out of town today for some craft supplies so that we could make some freezer stencil T-Shirts , because in a fit of ruthlessness whilst decluttering last month, I had thrown out our fabric paints.  At least I think I must have done as we've searched high and low and cannot find them.
It is a few years since I did anything with freezer stencils and I must have figured that we could do without the paints as it would probably be a few more before we got into that craze again.  I'd completely forgotten about the approaching jubilee party and that I wanted to get a little bit festive without having to splash out and buy new clothes.   

The children were very giddy today and they just would not calm down, not even after brain freezes and babyccinos.  Really, a shopping complex was not the best place for them today, but we needed to get some things and so I tried to make it as fun as I could. 

- which involved cheesy photo booth sessions.....

...monkeying around

...and lots of spinning

one very strong baby girl

In the end though, we had to get back to our shopping.  I shopped, while the boys tussled around the place and Mathilda was snugged up on my back.  I resorted to pretending they weren't with me (who are these children and why are they calling me mummy?!), while attempting to appear serene.  Somehow I don't think that I fooled anyone on the serenity front.