1 day to the big party...

May 25, 2012 11:53

Have you ever started trying to plan a surprise 40th Anniversary party for your parents with your brother and sister, and your brother lives in another state (but is coming into town a week and a half before the party but staying with your parents so he is absolutely no help) and your sister was a really great help at the start (trying and failing to find a venue, only to realize that every park in town is already booked for graduation parties and so she got with a couple of aunts and got the ball rolling with having a 'Memorial Day Picnic' hosted by aunt 1 but at aunt 2's house because it is larger and has more parking) but is now substitute teaching for the final few weeks of high school (and so cannot be of much help), only to have your mother step in and tell you that she wants us (you, your brother, your sister, and your mother) to have a surprise 70th Birthday Party for your father?

And then, have you created carefully constructed plans and invitations and asked someone to make a cake (telling you mother this!), only to have your mother try to start making new plans that contradict the ones you've already made (and you have to find a way to explain why your idea is better without telling her that everything is already set up and she is messing everything around), re-send out new invitations to everyone you've already sent invitations to (lucky, you have made both invitations and the anniversary party invite states that your mother believes the surprise party is for your father, so you hope everyone understands), and orders a cake from someone else? Of course, your sister-in-law, who was going to make the cake has backed out, but then so does the person your mother oders the cake from, so your mother orders a new cake from the grocery store where she works - and you spend countless hours trying to figure out if you can ask the bakers to change the words and not let your mother know, and then decide, 'screw it' because your mother will be too nosy and find a way to see the cake and you have not worked this hard over the last couple of months just to have the surprise within a surprise ruined the day before (or the day of) the party.

Yeah. Me too.

On the less-crazy side, I think my posters turned out excellent:







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