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Smiley Saturday is the brainchild of Lightening. If you would like to see other Smiley Saturday posts, then pop on over to her place. If you want to know whats involved in Smiley Saturday, or want to do your own post, then have a look at this bit of her site.

I was going to do this on Saturday but I ran out of Saturday, or I lost it somewhere, let me know if you find it will you :). So, then Plan B, do it Sunday, that’s OK, only a day late right??? Wrong, ran out of Sunday too. Then all of a sudden its Monday. Ooops, still haven’t done my Smiley Saturday and I really need to as there was lots to smile about.

So here goes.

Last Sunday was Tiger’s 11th birthday. Although DH and I told him he couldn’t celebrate until 11.04pm as that’s when he was born, and by that time all 11 year olds should be in bed, so he would miss it. He looked horrified until he realised we were joking. We had his party at a new local venue, Laser Tag. He originally wanted to have a pool party at home, but we had pool problems so this wasn’t going to happen. Anyway, I digress. Take 11 boys, 2 girls and a laser tag venue and what do you have - a fantabulous birthday party.

The kids had an absolute ball. They had 2 15 minute “missions” where they were divided into 2 teams and had to win against the other team and each other. As well as the missions they were given tokens to play the game machines beforehand. For the older ones there, the pinball machines were the only things that looked vaguely familiar.

They were fed pizza, soft drinks and chocolate cake as well. I don’t think that it gets any closer to kid heaven than that, does it? The kids had a great time, the parents that stayed thought that it was cool and I was happy as I had nothing to do other than turn up at the allocated time. They even did the lolly bags for me.

There was 2 classic moments though and both involve Daisy. The parents were up on the viewing platform which is raised up from where the kids were during the missions, and had fine wire mesh to stop people falling or things being dropped. Daisy “shot” one of the Mums, who very quickly pretended to collapse onto the wire. Daisy watched her response, then looked worried and said “Oh, sorry” to her.

The second was when Daisy looked at her score sheet for the first mission. They were in with some other kids so there was 20 of them for the first mission. She looked at her result sheet and saw 20/20 and was so pleased with herself that she got 100%. I didn’t have the heart to tell her what it really meant. If she’s happy, then who am I to burst her bubble.

Another source of smiles during the week was the feeling that maybe, just maybe, I am getting a grip on the workload for Uni. It all seems to be falling into place a little more this week.

Oh and for major smiles and huge achievements this week - a friend and I went to another girlfriend’s place to help her with pre-inspection clean up. She is recently separated and found out about her first rental inspection in 3 years. Needless to say, she went into a tail spin. Her biggest concern has been getting the edges of the grass trimmed as she has not been able to start the whipper snipper. Nor have a few other people that have tried. Its very obstinate. So on Friday, the other 2 had a go at starting it and not surprisingly, it didnt start. So while they got the stand by one going, I had a play with all the buttons and bits and pieces and guess what???? It started!!!!! After the three of us finished being gobsmacked and picked our jaws up off the ground, then the other 2 asked me the hard question - “How did you do that????”. Ummmm no idea really. I had to do it another time to work out how I had done it. Needless to say, K now had written instructions so that she can start it herself. And you know the best part…. not getting it started, but empowering a friend to do these things on her own as and when she needs to. That really makes me smile. And I’m betting that the girlpower will make Lightening smile too. Cause she knows what I am like. The only issue that I had was the fact that my chest and underarm-area muscles were really sore from pull-starting the crazy thing. No wonder I normally leave that sort of thing to DH

So lots to smile about this week. I really hope that you had lots to smile about too. And if you didn’t, then go and do something now that makes you smile.

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