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My oldest two children have birthdays in
January. Three months before their birthdays,
my oldest son said he wanted a Harry Potter Birthday party. So I started
researching on-line. In December my
oldest Daughter started talking about combining her birthday party with her
brothers. I don’t normally combine
birthdays, so that each child can be an individual in what they want for their
party. However, they had both said they
wanted to combine their parties with the same theme. Since they were both so sure about combining their
parties I allowed it. I had already
spent a good amount of my free time researching food, decoration and invitation
ideas. I had also started making decorations, and slowly buying the food items necessary
when they were on sale with a coupon.
I felt very
confident in my preparations for their party.
Then the morning of the party it occurred to me that I had neglected a
big part of parties for that age group, games and activities. We also had our sons’ baptism that same morning.
I am sure I was looking frazzled despite my happiness at my son choosing to be baptized. A friend of the family who was attending the
baptism asked
“Are you ok?”
I responded by
explaining what I had left to do with the decorations and food. Also my mistake in not preparing games.
She asked” Would
you like some help?”
I said” That
would be great!”
What I did not
know is that my friend was a HUGE Harry Potter fan. She had not only read the books, but had also
gone after high school to tour the Harry Potter sites as a vacation.
I have always
thought this particular friend is really fun.
She is one of those people who make you feel lighter from being around
her. She really helped me out of the
bind I was in with the games and finishing everything else. My husband finished
the last of the cleaning so I could finish the decorations and food. My friend was able to, on the spot come up
with classes for the kids to go through, using the food and decorations I already
had made.
The games went as
follows; the kids got their Ollivanders wands, the sorting hat sorted the kids
into Houses, Care of Magical Creatures
where they had to take care of Flobber worms, Herbology where they re-potted Mandrakes, Charms where they put wings on keys which they pretended to make fly,
Defense Against the Dark Art where my
husband pretended to be a Boggart who would come out of the closest wearing
funny costumes when the kids used their Riddikulus spell, and lastly they visited
Honeydukes Sweet Shop.
My children and
all the kids’ friends seemed to have a good time; so did I with all the
laughing and giggling the kids did during the party.
Afterwards my
friend stayed to help clean up. Trust me there was a mess I
feel so thankful for her putting herself out there to help me with the party. I am not a spontaneous person that is not one
of my talents. It is one of her talents.
After she left, I
was trying to think of a good way to thank her for all the help she gave
me. After tossing around a few ideas
with my husband I settled on doing a drawing of her in the Gryffindor common
room reading a book. Thankfully, her
husband has agreed to help by getting a picture of her reading a book so I could
use it as a reference for the drawing.
Now that I am done with the drawing I did for my husband, I am now
starting the drawing for my friend.
Here
it goes . . .
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