For the past few years Mimi has attended an annual princess party at our local rec center. I’m not in love with the mania that is princess culture, but she loves it and we try to balance things out by talking about how being strong, kind, smart, funny, etc… is more important that having fancy clothes.
But I still realize that it’s nice to dress up in fancy clothes once in a while.
Mimi’s little best friend ES went to the party with her. I had found these Cinderella dresses online at the Disney store on super-duper clearance so the girls could be twins.
The party was very well-run. They had stations set up around the gym with different Disney trademark-offending characters at each station handing out different prices (balloons, tiaras, stickers, etc…) and posing for pictures. Each attendee also got a little autograph book and Mimi was driven about getting every characters’ autograph. When she finally got every page signed she left out this huge sigh and smiled.
She had a great time but by the time we got home we were both done. And then as we got out of the car her balloon escaped and flew away, tragedy!
But then Mimi rallied liked the trooper she was.
