Procrastination is not your friend
Cali’s official birthday party is next Saturday and I have nothing planned. Birthday parties stress me out. Oh man do they stress me out! The theme is Hello Kitty, and as of today I have no activities planned, no loot bags prepared and nothing but dread over the cake making. My sister, Martha Stewart 2.0, typically handles these aspects of Cali’s parties, but with the new baby she won’t be able to hold my hand through this.
My sister’s step daughter had a Hello Kitty party earlier this year and I will definitely be poaching some of her ideas. One of the best activities was decorating Hello Kitty cake pops. Basically, she baked small, round pieces of cake with a stick in them, like cake popsicles. Then she stuck on chocolate chips for ears and dipped the whole thing in white chocolate—and lo and behold if they didn’t look like faceless Hello Kitty’s! The kids then drew on faces and bows with edible markers and small cake decorations, using white chocolate as glue. The kids loved this.
But that’s only one activity! Hello Kitty, in retrospect, may not have been a great theme. Activities related to Hello Kitty? Hello Kitty doesn’t do anything! She just looks cute. So I think instead we might try to make the rest of the activities central to a Japanese theme. So….we can do some origami! (Again, this terrifies me. Somehow I managed to be the one child of nine who missed out on the crafty gene!) And maybe make sushi?! Sigh. Anybody else have ideas?!
