I am trying to make a Simpsons birthday party, anybody got any ideas? I know that I am not a skilled enough baker to fashion a Homer or Bart shaped cake, although I suppose I could get some yellow food colouring and make springfield buns (must store that idea for later, it just came to me), but the truth is how many three year olds are really going to know who the Simpsons are? Perhaps I should conduct a survey. Josef doesn't want party games, he wants painting, play dough and colouring in, but I haven't put that on the invitation, is too late to call the mums and ask them to bring appropriate clothing or should I just wing it and hide the paints on the morning so no one gets covered? Perhaps we could play pin the hair on Marge or the tail on their dog or cat (another one for my memory store!) We have printed some pictures off to stick on the walls but it does look a bit half hearted, as if I am a free and easy mother who lets my children decorate the house in any way they see fit, which could be true.
I could just go in to woolies and buy the table cloth, the balloons, the cups, the plates, the napkins, the party bags and everything to go in them, but that would kind of blow the budget for the rest of the month, which is quite tight, after paying for the car to be fixed, the water bill, the playgroup fees and a bar tab of a hundred pounds that mysteriously appeared at Rob's work ("I can't think how it got so much" Hmmm), so maybe we should just settle for yellow balloons and yellow playdough, and yellow everything else, and if the other mum's think I either couldn't be bothered or am wierd, then let them.