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When Parker Lee sets out to plan a party, she doesn’t do it by halves. Especially when it’s going to be for one of her best friends. Meg’s engagement is going to be celebrated in style if she has anything to say about it.
And so her table looks like the table of a woman who is planning to invade a small country by way of Better Homes & Gardens. There are pictures pulled from magazines and neat lists and notes on legal pad paper. Possible menus, color schemes, decoration options, cupcake flavors. Grid drawings of the best possible layouts for the tents (now that it’s spring, it makes no sense not to have it out by the lake). Lists of possible activities, music selections, the pros and cons of balloons, and lighting options if things go late.
She’s having fun.
She’s also filling up the table top, and one accidental bump of her elbow makes her glass of iced tea slosh and wobble. Parker grabs it in time to keep it from going over, but her array of highlighters roll off into the floor.
“Crap.”
And so her table looks like the table of a woman who is planning to invade a small country by way of Better Homes & Gardens. There are pictures pulled from magazines and neat lists and notes on legal pad paper. Possible menus, color schemes, decoration options, cupcake flavors. Grid drawings of the best possible layouts for the tents (now that it’s spring, it makes no sense not to have it out by the lake). Lists of possible activities, music selections, the pros and cons of balloons, and lighting options if things go late.
She’s having fun.
She’s also filling up the table top, and one accidental bump of her elbow makes her glass of iced tea slosh and wobble. Parker grabs it in time to keep it from going over, but her array of highlighters roll off into the floor.
“Crap.”