Little Girls

have you ever been in a room with nine little girls? now, being in the room was bad enough, but i was in charge. yes, it was little sister's birthday party. of course, i had help. my best-friend-cousin was there too. the party was planned, but the execution was much harder than the planning. we were going to start out making kool-aid lip gloss. now, it's not that hard, one tablespoon of shortening, one teaspoon of honey, and one package of kool-aid (or in this case flavor-aid) dissolved in 1/4 teaspoon of water. mix it all together, and put it in a container. voila! lip gloss that tastes good, smells good, and has color that shows up. be careful though, it stings if you put it on chapped lips. seems easy enough, right? well, it is, until you add the little girls. so much confusion. but eventually, we helped it get made. (by helped i mean did most of it.) at the end, i warned them. this stains!!! DO NOT wipe it on your clothes. we have napkins and paper towels, so use those. what do you suppose happens? little girl number one wipes her cherry gloss all over her tan pants! so maybe that wasn't a good idea. the next thing we did was make journals. scrapbook paper, glue sticks, composition notebooks, and a paper cutter. all of them picked the two colors they wanted, and i cut the paper for them. they only needed three pieces. it was easy enough, until they started wiping glue all over everything. all they had to do was cover the notebook with the paper. is it really that hard to do it without getting glue on the table?(they were working on place mats, so we thought ahead there, but i didn't think we'd need to cover the whole table in plastic.) next on the agenda was painting nails. by this time, my mom had gotten home and had said that me and best-friend-cousin should paint their nails instead of letting them do each other's like i was thinking we would. good idea. then was presents, easy enough. after that we had cupcakes. hostess cupcakes. well, it's better than nothing. birthday parties are stressful. i suggest you plan activities that don't involve anything that stains, could spill, has glue, involves preparing food with the guests, is sharp, could give people paper cuts, or is supposed to be a "great project for parties." also, make sure you have back up.