How one thing leads to another...

 I happen to be a girl who loves celebrating birthdays, and I've been preparing for my Mama's birthday this week.

 It all started with some napkins.  Hot pink with big white polka dots.  I reached for them while rushing through Target the other day.

  And from that small purchase, akin to the words of a Laura Numeroff book, my life suddenly went into chain-reaction party planning motion.  (If you don't know who Laura Numeroff is, this post is going to make me seem like a weirdo.  Just roll with it. Mkay?)

 ...Cause you know... if you give a Sasha some hot pink polka dotted napkins, she'll want some zebra printed paper plates to go with them.

  Pretty soon, she'll get them home and they will be so cute that she'll start thinking about how they will look on the table.

 

  She'll make a trip to the paper store, bump into a blog reader, grab her and ask her opinion on things, and come home with fuschia paper for some simple and easy place mats.  An idea will begin to form, and she'll draw the outline of silverware onto them with her white gel pen.

 After she draws the outlines of silverware, she'll start thinking about what foods they should eat for dessert, since dinner is already decided, (eating this) which will drive her into the kitchen, hunting for good ideas.

She'll open her cupboard, spy a half-opened bag of pink candy coating pieces, which will make her think about meringues because everyone knows the only thing better than meringues, are meringues dipped in pink candy coating. 

   Once that's done, she'll put the remainder into the cupboard, knocking over a small canister of gray sprinkles. 

Shaking the sprinkles will make her think about cookies because what better to put sprinkles on, than gluten free, Salted Chocolate Chip cookies?  (Mmmmm....)

But for a special occasion like a birthday party, adding vanilla bean ice cream to the middle of two cookies and rolling them in sprinkles is the best idea ever.

 She'll spend the next half hour sandwiching ice cream between cookies and rolling them in sprinkles, but afterward, her counter top will be a smeary mess.

   As she cleans up the counter, it will get her thinking about what to put back on the counter, and that will lead her to thinking about table centerpieces.

As she pauses to think, she'll look out the window and see that a freak snowstorm is hitting her backyard.  This will remind her that spring isn't here yet, and thinking about spring will undoubtedly make her wish for some bright pink tulips. 

 Bright pink tulips would undoubtedly go well with the new polka dotted napkins she just bought, so she'll stand back and admire her pretty table top, snapping many pictures for her beloved blog readers to enjoy.

The End. (Cause Mama's are special and they deserve to be celebrated, don't you think?)

 

Resources:
Farmstand Milk Bottles can be found here. 
Gray Stripey Straws can be found here. 
Polka dotted napkins can be found here. 
Gluten free, Salted Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe can be found here. 
Meringues and Berry Lemonade found at Trader Joe's.