Susan Senator

For Nat’s party we had a total of sixteen kids, and various adults. Everyone bounced in the Moonbounce, which listed and sagged a lot because we were far exceeding the weight, age, and number limit. But we have found that those Moonbounces are kind of indestructible, as, apparently, is my house. After everyone had had their bounces’ worth, and then a piece of the cake (which was a blue van on a road, because a lot of Nat’s friends really love their vans), I invited everyone to come into the house.

I had not planned an indoor party; indeed, I had not planned much beyond the Moonbounce and the cake. I didn’t even have food offered! (Adults standing around with nothing to eat! What would Mom say? But I did have lots and lots of orange soda and Sprite! Still, I think I heard a groan of shame all the way from my childhood home in Connecticut.) The House staff who had come along all looked frozen as they stood their watching kids bounce or helping kids get their rightful cake. So I told everyone to go indoors and we would watch Nat’s new movie “Oliver and Company” (that’s the one with the dogs, plus a cat, although frankly that could describe maybe half of Disney’s movies).

So we all crammed into the livingroom, 5 on the window seat, 5 on the couch, and others hanging around standing. We all watched the big blue screen of the TV while the film rewound (Nat never ever rewinds when a movie is over). I was so happy to have all of them there, just sitting so patiently, everyone so sweet and eager, and especially Nat, who was just crazy happy. So happy, in fact, that he was upstairs for most of it! (Too Much Joy).

Nat’s 19th birthday party started with lots of cake: one Moonbounce cake, and 2 boxes of Duncan Hines cake (one yellow, one chocolate). For the edible cake, we had decided to recreate Nat’s van that his social group uses, a dark blue minibus. Even for the kids who were there who were not in the social group, vans are usually an important fixture in life!
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