My baby girl turned 17 today. Last week she told me that her friend Sariah had asked for my cell number for her mom - something she needed to talk to me about. Well, she hadn't contacted me yet, so I wasn't sure what that was all about and we both forgot about it....until I got a txt from her. She wanted to surprise Emma. Luckily they wanted to do it the day before her birthday. Here's where it gets tricky. I am a horrible liar.
I had to somehow talk Emma into cleaning her room. And then I had to try and get her out of the house at 8 am without taking her to breakfast (because her friends wanted to take her). She already started getting suspicious when I mentioned that cleaning her room was a really good idea. Then when I asked her to walk the dog for me in the morning - the jig was up. I was still trying to do my best at being dodgy about everything, but the dog refused to walk with her so she had to call home and get Jared to come get the dog from her because she knew she couldn't come home. (Apparently the dog is so attached that the thought of walking with someone else while I was at home was too much)Well, no one ever told me that and I also didn't know that she was just walking in circles waiting to come home - I was getting dressed because I had an early appointment. When I came downstairs and saw the dog I wasn't sure what happened or where Emma was. I went outside with the 2 younger ones so they could catch the bus. Before I walked back in the house, Emma apparently gestured to me wondering if she could come home, but I didn't know it was her because it looked like it was one of the Moms, so I went back in the house and tried to call her. She got mad at me for not recognizing my own daughter -hello! it was from a very large distance! and was not amused by walking around outside. I was still committed to not having ruined the surprise and asked her why on earth she would be walking in circles waiting for me to tell her she could come home? She gave me a glare and informed me that I was a horrible liar. Hey! At least she knows I will never lie to her and if I try to, she will know.
Look at how cute her friends are. Although. I must say. When I walked into the room and saw the thick pile of glitter everywhere. I was not amused. My first reaction was, who's gonna vacuum this crap up. You would not believe how far that stuff has traveled -it's throughout the entire house! But. I tried to hide it and party with them. It looked like a disco-tech in there. They even decorated Watson. I love the piñata! They even decorated her car. Her friends then blindfolded her and took her to breakfast. Super fun.
Today for her actual birthday we went out to dinner. She got to choose the restaurant because we let her birthday trump our anniversary. We only have a few years with the kids and a lifetime with just the 2 of us. Ethan was being crazy. He was keeping track of all his gulps, birbs, baby vomits etc. with little hash marks on the table. Jared got 'weird conversation of the night' award. He has obviously never paid attention to bottles of olive oil before, because tonight he said. "Wait, what the heck is extra virgin olive oil. Is there such a thing as slutty olive oil or just virgin? How are you extra virgin." That pretty much sums up life with Jared.
I put up a couple of decorations downstairs this morning to surprise Emma and made her wear a princess sash. Her reaction: "this is worse than ninja turtles." Haha. No matter how old she gets, she will still be my little princess. One of the sad things that happened was that just minutes after MJ's friends decorated her car it started to rain. Everything ran and smeared. So, while it was parked in the garage to save it from further damage overnight, I went out and cleaned the front and back window off and redecorated it.
Emma is always sad that I do all kinds of cool stuff for my Mia Maids and she doesn't get dittly squat. Every time she sees me making up something to deliver she gets pouty about it. So, for her birthday I made up a gift like I was giving it to one of my girls and put it on her bed. When she got home from school I gave her the present her aunt dropped off for her and told her that one of her yw leaders dropped something off for her. She looked at me funny and said, "which one?" I was shifty about my answer and told her to just go look- remember- I can't lie! She was pretty happy about what she found. A nice gift bag full of fun stuff with a card telling her what an amazing yw she was - signed by Sister Ivey :0)
She also got stuff from her best friend that she doesn't get to see much anymore since she has been attending the art school in Santa Fe. My yw class president who is also good friends with Emma even dropped something off for her tonight. She was showered with love today, for sure. The funny thing is that most of the yw are all dealing with loneliness. They all say they have no friends. If only they would cure the loneliness for each other. It's tough these days being a teenager. They have to be so much stronger than I had to be. I pray every day to know how to help them help each other and how to find self worth and how to help them suit up in the armor of the Lord. In the meantime it's important to acknowledge the parts of life that are good....and this day was good, and the people in it were good-which are friends, and life is good -when you let it be.
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