My Big Girl is 11. ELEVEN!
Whew.
Sigh. Anyway, she wanted an American Girl birthday party and by golly we did it!
So picture this: We're touch up painting, boxing up for storage, mopping, laundering, hiding, sorting, dusting, scrubbing. In the midst of all that I take a brief repose to: cut out and sew a costume, bake queen's cakes and apple tansey after shopping for unknown items like pippins, rose water food flavoring, and currants.
Are you rolling on the floor laughing yet? Okay, you may think it's not humorous, but you haven't been living my life the past few months.
What I find so funny is how seamlessly it all came off. We had cake and yummy fruit filled oranges which I got off a blog and now can't remember which one to pass on the info to you. Forgive me.
But take a look...
Just a few of our special guests.
We gave a souvenir teacup instead of gift bags.
Apple Tansey (care of Colonial Williamsburg recipes), and orange fruit cups.
Okay, this Apple Tansey thing, can you say "Yum?" Find it at http://www.history.org/almanack/life/food/index.cfm It's apples fried in butter with cream, nutmeg, rose water, eggs, and sugar. Yep, thousands of calories at a minimum but oh, sweet heaven!
Queen's cakes, Felicity's favorite. Dense little cakes but very tasty. The recipe came out of an AG book.
The girls learned an embroidery stitch called candlewicking and took home their work. They loved that. You see, we only think they love TV and video games more, but this was the hit of the party.
What a great day.
What a great Big Girl she is.
Happy Birthday, Big Girl!
Whew.
Sigh. Anyway, she wanted an American Girl birthday party and by golly we did it!
So picture this: We're touch up painting, boxing up for storage, mopping, laundering, hiding, sorting, dusting, scrubbing. In the midst of all that I take a brief repose to: cut out and sew a costume, bake queen's cakes and apple tansey after shopping for unknown items like pippins, rose water food flavoring, and currants.
Are you rolling on the floor laughing yet? Okay, you may think it's not humorous, but you haven't been living my life the past few months.
What I find so funny is how seamlessly it all came off. We had cake and yummy fruit filled oranges which I got off a blog and now can't remember which one to pass on the info to you. Forgive me.
But take a look...
She looks so beautiful and so grown up!
Okay, this Apple Tansey thing, can you say "Yum?" Find it at http://www.history.org/almanack/life/food/index.cfm It's apples fried in butter with cream, nutmeg, rose water, eggs, and sugar. Yep, thousands of calories at a minimum but oh, sweet heaven!
The girls learned an embroidery stitch called candlewicking and took home their work. They loved that. You see, we only think they love TV and video games more, but this was the hit of the party.
What a great Big Girl she is.
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