Party, Party, Party

C’mon everybody, all feel the noise!

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A‘squeal’ of noisy, excited seven-year-olds has formed a squirmy line beside me. It’s our granddaughter’s birthday and Audrey has given me the job of painting her friends’ fingernails.

Tiny bottles of pink, purple, green, turquoise and glow-in-the-dark red nail polish are lined up on the table.

“One red finger, one purple finger, one pink finger, one green finger and one blue finger please,” said my first customer.

It’s like being in a Broadway production of Little Orphan Annie. Little girls, little girls everywhere! Little girls in the cubby house, little girls jumping on the trampoline, little girls playing ‘chasies’ in the garden, little girls sneakily dipping fingers into the thick pink icing on the giant birthday cupcake.