Pancake breakfast in bed for the birthday girl.

And a birthday party with lots and lots of little girls and a few older brothers. (Not pictured: 6 more little girls.)

Eliot’s amazing piñata:

And check out the heart cakes I made! Strawberry cakes with strawberry frosting. The little boy at the end took a bite and told me loudly that he didn’t like it at all. His mom was pretty embarrassed. I told her I was very offended as I had spent all of $1.54 on this creation. The party was from 3:30-5:30pm. And I survived the mom scene. Then we cleaned everything up and I hopped in a Lyft to the airport to fly to Tucson to teach this weekend. Ahhhhhhh!!!

What’s making me happy: The kids loved the nature scavenger hunt game I made up.

The roly poly bugs were more of a challenge than I expected.

Running: Couldn’t get it done with the cake, party and flying to Tucson. Excuses, excuses.