A Playdate and Sugarbert :)

Q.  How do you make a playdate even better?!?  A.  Sugarbert!!  This afternoon, Daphne and Lela had a playdate....which means so did Michelle and I. :)  It is always great to get together with them. The kids have a ball playing and Michelle and I have a great time chatting (Michelle + me + chatting = free therapy).  It's a win/win situation all the way around for everybody.  This evening, we had to have some sugarbert (as my little sister used to call it; it is more commonly known by us boring adults as sherbert or sorbet if you want to be fancy).  Michelle loves the camera but only when she is behind it. I don't always get a chance to photograph her.  This was a great way to sneak her into the image.  Anyway, as always, we were being silly.  Michelle told them to link arms while eating the yummy treat and they didn't quite get what we were trying to tell them to do so Michelle had to hop up to help them.  I took the opportunity to snap a picture.  It brings a smile to my face every time I look at it.  Hope it does you, too.  Enjoy!

The Coveted DS

Lela had a playdate today!  She was so excited to have Megan over to the house.  The girls have been begging for awhile now to get together but it always seems something is going on to keep the playdate from happening; whether snow days, meetings, holidays or whatnot it just hasn't happened.  Anway, Megan's mom called the other day and we marked it in ink on the calendar for today after school.  The girls were estactic.

Now, I remember playdates from when I was a child.  We most generally played with Cabbage Patch dolls, barbies, dressup or the karaoke machine (my mother had to love that little noise maker).  The point is we used our imagination.  I mean, a karaoke machine was pretty darn hightech and we still had to pretend to be a famous singer or band.  Heck, we might have even jammed out to some 45s (you know, those disc shaped like things that played music with a needle and required a record player...that's right, records!) or maybe a cassette tape or two (I do remember 8 tracks but now I am REALLY showing my age).

Playdates are different nowadays.  It's all about the Nintendo DS.  Megan even brought a game of her own over to play on Lela's DS.  Are you kidding me?  Lela, as well as Megan, I am sure, could play with this little contraption any ol' time they wanted to, especially when bored at home without the company of friends.  Alas, this seemed to be the hot toy of the evening.  As a matter of fact, they couldn't put it down while eating the brownies we made as an after school snack.  Don't believe me?  Here's proof.

After eating the yummy brownies, they continued to sit at the kitchen table and wield their DS skills laughing and giggling the entire time.  I guess that is one thing that hasn't change about playdates. :)