So our Mia (12 in January; going on 16 1/2) and I organized a little girlie weekend fun on Friday. She's actually pretty good about the weekend hang outs. She is at school for such long hours and we all seem to run around all week long as we are all full on with activities * that our weekend time is really reserved for family-time. I love our family time and have actually steered away from weekend adult activities as I really just, plain and simple, love hanging with my hubby and kids on the weekends.
You may or may not know but we never had an 11th birthday party for our MiMi. We started a birthday tradition with our kids ages ago that every birthday they have a choice of:
A. Birthday party with friends.
We set the limit of friends and budget (which we almost always seem to go over in expensive Dubai).
B. Dinner alone with mom and dad at a restaurant of their choosing.
Terence always picks B since his 8th birthday.
Mia knew she wanted a party but couldn't decide where, with who, when. Our weekends were always packed and every time we detected a reasonable weekend, she seemed to get an invite to another friend's birthday at that exact time.
Long story short, it eventually became too late. To make up for it, I asked her if she'd like a girlie afternoon with some of her best mates. She jumped at the opportunity.
We started with a lovely late lunch with her group and then walked over to this amazing newish hot spot called BOUNCE. It's an indoor trampoline park and the children all love it. Especially in this Dubai heat. The evening ended just after 8pm and the girls all had an amazing time. Mission accomplished.
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| Walking from lunch to Bounce. |
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| Getting their wrist bands which allows them entry. |
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| 6 of them (and 2 others) awaiting the start of a game of dodge ball. |
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| Mia and her besties (2 couldn't make it) and sister, Ali. |
And a video of some of their dodge ball fun.
