Happy birthday Glorymouse!

Yes! She was 1 on 11th January.

We had a party. We played Stick The Tail On The Donkey, which turned into a frenzy of ugly competitiveness (and that's just the adults.) We had pass-the-parcel; I didn't win, and sulked until I realised I'm 33. I tried my best to get all the toddlers to sing and do the actions to lots of kiddie songs; Emma refused, watching from the sidelines with utter contempt. The cake - made by Switzergent, fruit, cream-cheese icing - lasted about 20 seconds. And afterwards I had to lie down in a darkened room, muttering to myself 'stressful', 'chaos', 'never again' and 'wine please.' Of course we will do it again - Emma is 3 in two months time - and my whinging is just pretend really, it was good fun.