A birthday. and SUPERMOM.

I survived the birthday party. 

I know I said earlier that most women are smart enough to not try to have it all. I don't know if this is quite the same, but throughout Party Day I found myself comparing myself to a non-existent mother far superior to myself.

I couldn't help thinking that Supermom would have done a few things different.

1. Supermom would have invited friends to the party as a first step.

2. Supermom would have figured out how the Special Fun Activity she bought for the party worked. In advance.

3. Supermom would not have used her baby as a party toy in order to get a head start on cleaning up.

Supermom probably also would have bought her child a present before the actual birthday. And she would have gone and picked out something both fun and educational and had it wrapped, instead of just sending the birthday girl in to pick out whatever looked sparkliest.

Oh, and Supermom's castle cakes probably look like castles (fortunately, I went with the classic "cake cake" design for the party. It came out shaped perfectly. Somewhat burned on the bottom, but that just made the cake: frosting ratio even better).

But fortunately, none of my kids could care less that I'm not Supermom. Adi was very pleased with her party, the girls all enjoyed playing princesses whenever they weren't eating cake, and all the girls are enjoying the super-sparkly books that Adi chose (I didn't know that sparkly books were even a thing. But they are a thing! An expensive thing).

The day ended like this: