Friday night, party night

We are in the midst of school discos again here and so last Friday evening I spent a very happy hour and a half with friends in the school bar whilst Matthew and his friends had a great time inside the hall. In fact we chose to sit on the terrace outside both to enjoy the warm evening and also to keep out of the smoke - weird how quickly smokey bars have become a dim and distant memory for me. And then I bundled 8 kids into the car and dropped them at their various houses, sitting quietly to enjoy their post disco analysis en route. Apparently the screaming was a reaction of horror to Justin biber being played.
This Friday was Katie's disco and she has been so excited all week, not least because its the first outing for the party dress granny gave her as a belated birthday present when we were in the UK.




Tim and I also had a party to go to too so I'd thought we might have a rare bit of mum and daughter time between school and putting on our dancing shoes for brushing hair, choosing frocks and other girls things. But Katie had different plans and wanted to be independent and sort out her stuff on her own. Which was lucky really as Jamie came home from school announcing that we needed to bake biscuits. Apparently he'd been voted cricket captain on a mandate of providing cookies for the team each week - he's clearly learning about voter incentives from the Kenyan pre election debate. Inevitably, he announced this 90 minutes before we had to leave with Katie and as the first match is an early saturday morning start my princing and titivating was replaced by mixing and baking.




So cookies cooked, daughter delivered to disco, pasta prepared to feed hungry boys, it was finally time to put on my own party frock and shoes. And relax.....




Anne