It was another of those wonderful Saturdays when hubby and I were home alone.  The two older kids both had work and the two younger were invited to a birthday party.  Yay!

Last night for #4's birthday party, we went out to eat.  Her request for a birthday party was to invite two friends over, everyone dress up in their good clothes and go to a nice restaurant where "people come to your table and take your order". One of the friends cancelled at the last minute, so there was only party participant.  This girl didn't want to spend the night, so the party was a bit of a bust for the .  Since we went to a really nice restaurant, it busted our check book a bit too.  Taking the family out for a nice dinner out isn't something we're going to be doing too often.  I could have bought almost a week's worth of groceries with what we spent on that meal.  Oh well, at least she had fun and got to wear one of the dresses she got when we were shopping last week.

PS  IA:  I wasn't hating on 90 lb teenagers, I've got one of those myself.  What I WAS ranting about was the ugly clothes that are in style that society expects us to wear even though they look like something a prenant woman is forced to wear because of her condition.  There are very few options out there if you want to wear "dress up" clothes, unless you want to wear the ugly maternity top looking things, which I don't.  I've spent over 2 years wearing maternity clothes, I've done my time in smock tops and I don't want them back in my closet...EVER!!!!