BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR A 2 YEAR OLD MINX

Saturday 24th June 2006 dawned cloudy with a hint of rain. Preparations for the birthday party was well underway and all involved (namely the mom and 2 friends) were busy with the cooking and scrambling to get the little tyke to have her naps so that she would be bright eyed for the night's festivities. By the time everything was ready, we still had time left to have our showers and change the birthday girl into her birthday fineries.

By the time her daddy got home from work and picking up the cake, the birthday girl was almost ready to scream as she was missing her daddy and being cooped up on the high chair is just no fun for an active 2 year old! The birthday girl was so excited by all the festivities that she couldn't stop running around and giving hugs and kisses to her daddy and me.

The cake cutting ceremony was quite an adventure. Angel was so taken with the cake that she couldn't wait for me to hold her hand and cut the cake. She almost destroyed the cake! Blowing out her candles was a chore as she was too fascinated with the candlelights.

We opened the presents after the cake was cut, served and eaten. Her reaction to the toy Barbie roadster with the Barbie doll inside was priceless! She could not stop squealing out her delight and was demanding that her daddy open up the present so that she could play with it! The Elmo cuddly that I gave her earlier was forgotten as well as the other gifts! She held on tight to that roadster and promptly climbed onto my lap and hugged the toy tightly, fearful that her cousins would take the toy away from her.

After most of the guests had left, her daddy turned on the telly as the football games were on. Her daddy, my brother and his family and my godchildren were all engrossed in the game. My little baby was so tired out and very whiney as she wanted her milk and mommy to hold her. She put the toy car in her toy box and started looking for Elmo. Holding her Elmo, she came to me and cuddled up to me. Her milk was downed in record time and she was fast asleep by the time she spat out the pacifier! Poor darling was so tired that she slept through all the yelling of the football freaks!

I thank God for this lovely girl and I am looking forward to watching her grow and I am sure I will love her even more!

The crazy neighbour strikes again!

Here we go again! That neighbour of mine is up to her old tricks again! She's had her baby and my hubby and I decided to give her some baby things which we no longer needed as my girl had outgrown them. We gave her the stroller, bath tub, clothes and a lot of other things for her baby girl and visited her after the baby's full moon just to see how she was doing.

That woman took that as a license to start her nonsense again! She called me up on Tuesday night and asked if I could 'lend' her my credit card as she needed to reconnect her Astro! The audacity of that woman! I told her no and now she's mad at me! People like her thinks that the whole darn world owes her!

Now my hubby says that I should have stayed away from that "one screw loose" character as he calls her or she'll find any or some kind of excuse to bug me into lending her money! Hubby says that I have this tendency to pick up 'strays of the 2 legged kind' and end up being hurt.

So I ask myself again.....am I a friend to her or a ATM????? As a Catholic, I am told to be kind to my fellow humans, to give charity where it is needed but does reconnecting someone's Astro come under that catergory? I can't even afford to go to that spa I've been dying to go to, so is there anyone out there willing to sponsor my spa treatment for a tired body, mind and soul??? I doubt it!

Neighbours......!!!! Who needs them!????