K's third birthday party was on Sunday. I invited eight of her closet friends. Actually I invited her two best friends that she plays with all the time – one from the gym and one from church, but then I had to invite my friends with young children, and then the other friend who would have been left out, and well, it just snowballed from there.

When you've got eight children who are three and under, they bring their parents. Most of the kids brought both parents, so we had almost sixteen adults (including us).


The kids ran and played, running through the house taking turns being monsters. They were high on friendship and birthday cake and soda. It was a pleasure to watch.

K got burned out opening presents – she wanted to play. After each opening, she demanded that I tear apart the plastic coverings so she could share the toys and they could go play.

I love that about kids. They know what is important.

She had friends over and she was going to take full advantage. The presents could wait.

Later, after everyone left, (and after a much needed nap) we took our time, and opened the presents from family. She loved each one and oohed and lahhed. She had such a good time and I was the proud mama and high as a kite, on the beauty of my daughter growing up.

K's birth mom was there. She brought her ten month old baby and another mom asked her how we were related.....


I heard you are K's grandmother...(?!)

Birth mom started to answer that she was birth mom when the other mom walked away. It must have been too heavy a conversation for her to hear - or her child was eating mass amounts of cake unsupervised. I never found out which.

(Birth mom and I had a good laugh about that later – a twenty something grandmother!)


All the adults that came to the party were in their thirties – a couple even in their twenties.

It didn't matter one little bit to the children how old the moms and dads were. They were kids, we were parents, everyone was having fun.

Any you know what?

It didn't matter to me either.

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