Kaela turns 5 on Friday. So, I've been thinking of fun things to do for her birthday party. Last year, we had Mr. Magic come to our house, and the kids raved about it for the entire year. Mr. Magic, however, is expensive. And Pricey Parties Parents don't live in this house anymore.
So I got to thinking that this is the perfect time for a fall festival party. We could do face painting, bob for apples, potato sack races, and bust a pinata. Then there's always floating rubber duckies, pin the tail on the donkey, and all that good stuff. Pretty cheap, and pretty creative, I thought.
I got really excited, and wrote up invitations. By the time we included neighbors, cousins, and kids from her preschool we were up to about 20 preschoolers. Whew. Ambitious, but not impossible.
Fast forward to this week. The pool has turned green, and no amount of chlorine is helping. My boss's boss has RSVP'd that she will be here with her daughter. The dog has peed on the floor for the first time in years, and I can't find it. I can't find a potato sack anywhere in the free world (and where did I think I would get one, anyway??). And Eric just told me he is on call this weekend and probably will have to work.
Suddenly, I have an unsupervised, chaotic mess of a party on my hands.
Last night I dreamed that I put High School Musical on for the kids, and they cried to go home for the entire 2 hours. The party lived on in infamy and even made it into Kaela's senior yearbook.
OK--gulp--we can do this.
I'll keep you posted.
1 comment:
Oh good God...You have fun with that... If I didn't have a load of math homework to do before next week, I'd come help. And also, I don't like children so I probably wouldn't be of much help anyway. I would most likely end up throwing them in a green pool and/or they would hear me swearing in other languages and ask me what I was saying. And of course I can't lie to a child, so I would have to tell them exactly what I said. Overall it would be very bad.
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