Party Planning Kit

Tomorrow is the big birthday party for the girls and I've got a million things to do. Fortunately, I have today off. By the way, is it wrong to have a celebration on Holy Saturday? It seems kind of blasphemous. Oh well.

It's time for a list:

1. Make coffee


2. Wake up Doc and Lucy


3. Get ready


4. Get a 32 ounce Diet Coke for me (perhaps with a splash of Go Ape energy drink)


5. Take the kids to Grandma and Pop's


6. Go to Target and get gifts for the girls


7. Go to Walmart and buy chips, pop, and beads for party activity, candy for pinata (mini Reese cups), replacement ink cartridge for photo printer...also get a few groceries


8. Order ice cream cake


9. Have lunch


10. Pick up the kids


11. Send Doc off to the Chiropractor


12. Clean kitchen


13. Dust living room


14. Send Doc off to work


15. Tidy the children's room


16. Tidy our room


17. Clean the bathrooms


18. Run the vaccuum


19. Have a beer with Elizabeth


20. Move the guest bed out of the play area in the basement


21. Set up kids tables in the basement


22. Bring in chairs from the deck


23. Bring up card table and chairs from the basement


24. Put the kids to bed


25. Have another drink


26. Wrap presents


27. Try to figure out how to accommodate 25 people, where to put the food


28. Set up activity areas for the kids


29. Welcome Doc home


30. Head over to the Tiki and drink some more


31. Fall into bed


32. Wake up at 7:30 a.m. with Riley


33. Fix breakfast


34. Make coffee


35. Wake Doc & Lucy


36. Take kids to get pictures made (therefore preserving the state of the house)


37. Return home by 1:00 p.m.


38. Put out plates, pop, chips


39. Set out activities at activity stations, stuff and hang pinata out on a frost-encrusted tree


40. Welcome guests at 2:00 (except for those early birds who will already be there)


41. Order pizza at 2:30


42. Eat at 3:10


43. Cake at 3:30


44. Presents at 3:45


45. Goodbye's to all at 4:00


46. Enlist the help of Mom, Grandma, and Elizabeth to do the dishes, i.e. throw the My Pretty Pony plates and cups in the trash


47. Have a drink


48. Play some poker


49. Welcome Doc home at 7:30


50. Pass out

Wish me luck!