Partytime

It took some days for both of us to calm down. When there is a big project that makes you prepare a lot before, the feeling with which you go to bed that night and what you feel the following days, that is my favourite. It is about something like this: I did it, not anyhow, it was definitely worth, it is over but not vanished into thin air!

As Dominik has to go to the nursery for a few weeks even in summer, now we had luck to bring some cakes and celebrate his birthday among nursery frames as well. On 24th July, I picked him up after lunch and dedicated the whole afternoon for his wishes. Cinema, popcorn, playing house, toy stores, McDonald’s - while using as many escalator as we could.

The re-establishment of the house took a couple of days just like the build up of the party. I had more to do by the last day as originally planned because we celebrated Peter’s 40th birthday the previous night that crossed my schedule a bit.

The script

05:00 Getting up early to add the last but one touches to the house, to put the things in a safe place that needed. But my very first thing was to look out for the sky but was too early to draw any conclusion.

07:00 Having a shower, hair washing and curling; asking God for giving no rain

07:45 Dominik got up

08:00 Fast breakfast

08:45 Being at the best place to get little farewell gifts; getting privileged parking area after saying that we are purposeful and in a hurry. Discussing the weather with the shop assistant who said that there is no rain today

10:00 At the shopping mall to get the fresh ingredients and the very last accessories such as the spiderman candle. We met one of the nursery teachers and let her know what we were preparing for. She said that it cannot rain. The cashier also said that she crossed her fingers for being not rainy.

11:00 Getting home; final hoovering; finalizing indoor decoration

12:00 Wanted Dominik to sleep with the thought of the avoidance of the rain

12:15 Dad & Lajos came to blow up the balloons; Dominik did not want to sleep of course; starting to organize the backyard, cleaning and moving everything out that needed; praying for no rain

14:00 Finally, Dominik fall asleep and woke up exactly by the time the balloon castle had arrived  

15:15 Balloon castle arrived and was fully ready in 10 minutes

16:00 First guests arrived

16:30 Cotton-candy time by cotton-candy machine

17:00 Presentation

17:30 Pizza-time by home-delivery service

18:00 Some raindrops started to fall down; praying for no rain, no rain, no rain

18:15 Spiderman cake time

18:45 Sisters and brothers time

19:30 Last guest left, only relatives stayed

20:00 The packing down of the balloon castle is a spectacle itself

21:00 Everybody left, what remained: stiffness, satisfaction, beautiful presents!...

22:00 Started to rain - endless thanks for God for the timing!

Dominik's 5th Birthday Party

Almost 5

Busy, busy, busy... Has anybody seen a boring summer ever? This is what the season is about. Brilliant engagements, outdoor activities, birthdays, one after another. And we are very near to the most important one! We are preparing for Dominik's special day in mind and in acts for months. But this week I really do my best to achive the preplanned conception. The biggest challenge is my time-table. It requires much effort that everything will be executed in time after the office hours. I hope that I'm smart and hardy enough to provide a clean, orderly, children-friendly, stylishly decorated environment and to create some titbit for our little guests.  

This is how we made DIY invitation cards step by step.

1. Collect the needful quantity of toilet paper rolls.

2. Go outside.

3. Have a child and make him busy because you’re going to create.

4. Needed your tempera selection, 1 x paintbrush, 2 x disused toothbrushes.

5. Paint the rolls with different colours carefully.

6. Wait until full drying.

7. Bring out a disused toothbrush and give it to the child.

8. Show him how to make paintspots with the help of it on a plain paper.

9. Bring out another disused toothbrush.

10. Plunge it into tempera but use the more distinct colour than the colour of the certain roll.

11. Make dots with the help of the painty toothbrush and your thumb onto the rolls round and round.

12. Prepare the optinal personalized cards while the rolls are drying.

13. Fill the rolls with some sweets, small stickers and don’t forget to put the invitation cards inside.

14. Fold the bottom and top edges of the rolls 2 x 2 times in order to get a lovely pillow-shape.

15. Tag with names or nursery signs.

16. Forward them to the consignees.

Getting Exhausted

The third weekend being out because of different engagements.

The third month using bike to approach often visited local places.

The forth week rushing from work to gym every consecutive day. 

The umpteenth night sleeping watchfully with a strange feeling.