Birthday girl

April has come again, and that means planning for my daughter Sarah's birthday party. I dread this day. Sarah has always been a child who has felt that her birthday should be a national holiday, and I make the joke that the world was not created until Sarah was born- at least in her eyes. So I have this pressure to do something great for her birthday that will please her, and not break our budget or upstage our other children's birthdays. I spent the day looking online for places to have a birthday party. Good grief!!! The costs are outrageous!! I mean, I might consider it if she was my only child, but I have five other children, so I cant afford to go all out all the time. After hours of searching, and falling short of any great ideas, Derek came home for his lunch and told me we should rent a pontoon boat, that we can drive around the bay. We did this last week with our church, and it was so much fun!! You can drive around the bay, and park the boat on one of the sand barges, where you can walk out on the sand, and go snorkeling or swimming or jut play. I checked into getting a boating license, and it only costs $15, and to rent the boat for four hours, it costs $75. I am excited, should be a lot of fun, and not too stressful for me, but very memorable for her.