Whew. I'm wiped. Today we had AK's 6th birthday party. While she doesn't actually turn 6 for another couple of weeks, I like to have her party a little early because otherwise it's just way too close to Christmas and just way too hectic. Not that it wasn't hectic having it today mind you, but at least now it's over and we have a little time to prepare for the holidays.
I keep seeing all these tweets and FB updates and blog posts about how people are almost done with xmas shopping! What?? Really? I thought I was organized....but I guess notsomuch. I do have a couple of gifts for the kids....but that's only because I kind of went overboard buying them birthday presents and I decided to just save some of those for Christmas. Oh well...this week I will have to start shopping. Or at least start figuring out what to get everyone. Oh that and figuring out how we are going to seat 9 or 10 people for xmas dinner at our house on Dec 24th. Oh and how I'm going to cook for them. Yikes!
Anyway....we survived AK's birthday party today. Barely. Next time I even think about hosting a party for 13 little girls and 3 boys and some grownups at my own house, someone please talk, or knock, some sense into me. We had AK's wish to have Princess Aurora (also known as Sleeping Beauty) at our house for one hour, which mostly went smoothly. She sang, played games with the kids and applied makeup. There were a couple of girls though, who will not be invited over to our house again. I couldn't believe the way they were behaving. Serious attitude like they were too cool for princesses and I had to tell them that while that might not be their "thing" they needed to suck it up and try to make it special for my daughter who wanted a princess party.
But the 1/2 hour before she arrived, and the 1/2 hour after she left was pure and utter chaos. Girls screaming, running up and down the stairs, doors slamming, boys yelling at girls, girls screeching, things flying, dog barking nuttiness. By the end of the party, all the adults were literally counting down the minutes until the parents would arrive and rescue us from this insanity. When they were all gone and the house was finally quiet....we had to deal with a serious mess. Both the kids bedrooms, the living room and playroom and well pretty much everywhere were just a disaster. Also, we had told the kids that our bedroom, where the poor dog was put into her crate, was off limits, but they ended up in there and the poor dog went completely beserk. Anyway...we survived and it's over and I'm soooooo happy each kid's birthday only happens once a year! I'm already trying to think of ways to convince my daughter that she'd rather have a getaway with just mom or something special with one or two friends to try to avoid having to do this again a year from now. Sadly my son, who chose a 2 night stay at Great Wolf over a big party, said for his next birthday he wants a big party too after witnessing the insanity that took place today. At least we've got almost a year to try to talk him out of that idea.
It's been a crazy week. Luckily, my dad had his surgery this past Thursday and went home from hospital on Friday. He was doing okay but requires a nurse to change his dressing daily. Today the nurse came and said his incision looked infected. Luckily she was the type to go above and beyond, and was able to get in touch with a resident at the hospital and get some antibiotics prescribed over the phone, thus probably saving him a trip to emergency on a Saturday night. After seeing how short staffed they were at the hospital when my dad was there, I'm so so relieved that he didn't have to go back. In any case there is hope that he will be recovered enough to still go back to FL at the end of the month, but we won't really know for sure for a couple of weeks.
Now....just looking forward to CW going to bed at last so I can crash! Tomorrow we are off to Mountsberg Christmastown. So excited because these tickets are much coveted and had to be procured by lottery in September (or purchased from a friend who was lucky enough to get extras) Let's hope the reality lives up to the hype!
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