The First Ever Annual Lennon’s Day

I just got home from the first ever annual Lennon’s Day: Unbirthday, Easter, Christmas, Halloween, Fourth of July and Appreciate your friends Day! Maybe the best party I have ever been too.

The grown-ups were awesome, the conversation varied, sophisticated and interesting. The kids were so well behaved the grown-ups had time for all that kibitzing along with a some good wine, a little beer, outstanding New York Pizza and a Calzone to die for made by a guy from the Bronx, accent and all. He makes the best food I have ever eaten from a pizza place and he donated it all for Lennon Day!

The kids brought Halloween costumes, dyed eggs, blew bubbles, made chalk pictures and played at our make-shift beach. We had an Unbirthday Cake with the boy’s whole name on it since he can now both spell and write that very loooong name himself. We sang, “A very merry unbirthday” and Lennon Sebastian Angell blew out the candles.

After the cake we all crossed the street where Daddy and the neighbor set off some stupendous fireworks that Grandma Carole brought from Indiana. We sat on serapes and lawn chairs under the Big Dipper and the fireworks exploded over our heads like giant chrysanthemums in every color you can imagine.

When the last firework faded from the sky there was a huge conga line back across the street and into the house where the little ones played in Lennon’s Hobbit House (Great cardboard box house his parents made when he was one,) threw bean bags at Wally the robot and played Power Rangers with the big boys, (all the Dads and Uncles John and Ian, both of whom painted their faces to look like orange jack-o-lanterns in honor of Lennon’s special day.) Then every child got to open a present picked just for them and wrapped in Christmas paper!

It was nearly midnight before everyone left and I came down the hill to my house. We all had such a good time I think we’re going to do it again next year.