Chicklet’s 11th Birthday!

Whoop whoop! Look who’s eleven years OLD!

I gotta say, she simultaneously feels older and younger than that, but the predominant word to mark this milestone is bittersweet.

This beautiful, unique, unicorn child of mine is about to grow and change the most she ever will, over the next couple of years.

(Insert Mama sobbing.)

I’ve seen it with my eldest, my darn Google photos with its retrospective pics only confirms it: a ton of change is coming! Middle school and growth spurts are upon us. Chicklet is literally closing other childhood and entering her teenage years, and…UGH.

It was a toss up to see how she might want to celebrate, this year. We’ve been all over the spectrum for the past decade: themed decoration explosions at home, hooplas with little friends, the world was her oyster, yet again.

And you know what she decided??? She wanted to chill. Have a home Saturday (officially celebrating a day early, because “Saturdays are better than Sundays” ha) with little to demand, other than the opportunity to reign as Queen and enforce her Yes Day demands. ;)

Needless to say, we were happy to acquiesce! We built a balloon arch Friday night, wrapped up her presents, and let our girl live her best (lazy) life, all day Saturday. :)

Now, the one thing we proposed, to make the day over-the-top happy: a sleepover with a school buddy, and, man, was it a hit!



I have soooooo many mixed opinions about sleepovers (more on that in a coming post), but middle grade kiddos regard them as the holy grail, and there’s no swifter day to make mine feel like they won the lottery.



This little friend got to hang with us for nearly 24 hours! Even attended church and lunch with us on Sunday to round out the whole shebang, and I’m grateful my trio of crazies managed to be on their best behavior and get along, with a friend in residence so long.







I’m really so grateful to say that we ended the weekend with 100% certainty that Chicklet felt loved and celebrated for her birthday weekend, and, that, my peeps, is what it’s ALL ABOUT.

Okay, I have approximately 2,743 catchup posts to tackle, as well, so there might be more incoming, today (fingers crossed)! It’s my goal to keep up, not catch up, but…LIFE, I tell ya!

More, soon, peeps!

Over and out.