Lydia planned a party for her class, Eli, Emerson and Isabel. Lydia is incredibly shy at school (apparently she won an award or some type of recognition for being so quiet). But inside she wants to connect more with her classmates, and I think she wanted her party to be just the thing to make that happen, – to help the class get to know her better. Lydia planned the activities and the concept of the party.
Lily also has been completely on-top of helping to plan the party. Lily had a really hard time socially in the latter part of elementary school, and so all of her heart-strings were pulled, and she did a ton of work to help provide a great party. She cleaned the house top to bottom (which was a ton of work), cut veggies, ordered drinks and pizzas, got s’more ingredients, and coordinated with me for karaoke setup etc. We were perfectly prepared and everything pulled off without a hitch.
First the kids ate pizza outside.
Then everyone watched Matilda. I was going in and out of working, but I was laughing harder than any of the kids at Matilda. I forgot how funny it was, especially when the parents argue with Matilda and insist that she’s 4, not 6 and a half, that she can’t go to school because no one would be home to sign for the packages and tell her to put down her books and watch tv with the rest of the family.
After the movie, we had a raffle. Lydia and Lily prepared gifts to hand out to raffle winners and Lydia announced the raffle winners.
https://youtube.com/shorts/ceL0QBpFOYA
After the movie, we set up the karaoke machine and the kids really took to it. They sounded great!
Then we all had s’mores.
I’m so impressed by Lydia’s class. I just enjoyed being around all of them. They are all so bright, kind, funny, thoughtful and fun. It made me very grateful for children. They really are the light of the world.