Owen is having a birthday party next weekend. He's invited 15 boys and 4 girls. Yeah, that's right...oh my. That's what I get for having a kid who loves everyone. He really does. He would invite the whole 2-4 grades if I let him.
I'm hoping the weather will be nice...then it will be baseball in the yard and other outdoor games. Do you have an outdoor game for kids you loved? Please share! It's tradition to do an egg toss at our parties, so that's definitely on the schedule. But what else? If I'm potentially going to have 20 kids at my house, I need to keep them ENTERTAINED!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - GOTCHA! We all know it's going to rain, because, well, I'm having a PARTY. So I guess what I really need is inside games. Besides pin the tail on the donkey. There's the balloon relay?
From Accuweather: Saturday, May 27
Rather cloudy with a couple of showers possible. Winds from the S at 9 mph.
High: 69° F
Couple of showers possible? POSSIBLE? I might as well just line the house with plastic now. Possible MY ASS. Weathermen bow in my general direction for singlehandedly changing weather patterns as they know them.Remember the monsoon birthday of Owen's a couple of years ago? Right after we finished the basement? With NEW paint and carpeting? Remember the party the year before that? When Kevin let...encouraged even - all of the little nieces and nephews jump in the mud puddles? And I had to find a change of clothes for everyone? JACKASS.
Remember the typhoon of Kevin's 40th birthday party? Yeah, no one forgets that. The party where I was so drenched and mud-splattered that I didn't even shower. Hell I barely combed my hair and I had no make-up on. BRILLIANT. The party where Chris was body surfing the YOOOOOOGE puddles in my yard and lost his glasses? And I FOUND them??? The party that I had planned...for MONTHS...in the summer of a DROUGHT, people. A FUCKING DROUGHT...and yet...there it was, the 5 inches of standing water UNDER THE TENT that was supposed to protect us from the elements. I had planned for it to provide shade for the sun that was supposed to be out in force. But no.
The day ended well...with the ladies throwing down in the jumpy-jump. Boo-ya!! Did I mention cameras should be following me? Seriously. Funny. Stuff. Honestly, if you need it to rain, have me schedule something. Cub Scout Camping? Rains everytime. Camping with preschool? Rain. Last year I just wanted to have an end of the year Cub Scout cookout...rained. Last night I talked about grilling out...aaaaaaand, you guessed it. Rained. Farmers have dropped the almanac and are now consulting me on all things rain and crop circly.
I'm apologizing to the Anton family in advance for Father's Day. Now that the Crum's have decided to attend the game as well...I'm sure it will, you guessed it, RAIN.
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I feel like the cleaning people were just at your house. Me jealous. I'm getting cleaning people. I have to. Someone has to clean. It'll be a business expense since I have an in-home studio.
They were here 3 weeks ago...you know how I know? Because I wrote about it in my blog. ;) It's the only way I remember things anymore.
I LOVE your idea of using it as a business expense. BRILLIANT.
I don't think Kevin will EVER let me get rid of my cleaning people now. They are too good. And they're nice. But more importantly, they're good...they do a WAY better job than I've ever done.
Outdoor - Bocce Ball
Indoor - "Mummy Wrap" - Divide the kids into pairs, with one the Mummy and the other the Mummy Wrapper. Give each wrapper a roll of toilet paper or crepe paper streamer. On the word "Go!" have the wrappers race to see who can wrap up their mummy first. The game is tricky because the faster they try to wrap, the more the tissue will tear, causing them to keep restarting!
Indoor - "Price Is Right" - Here's a great wind-down game that also serves as the going-away favor. Buy inexpensive gifts for your guests, such as a big bag of candy, a small stuffed animal, a scary book, and so on. Distribute paper and pencil to each player. Hold up one item and have the kids try to guess how much it cost. Reveal the price tag and award the gift to the player who guessed the closest. That player is out of the game, while the rest continue guessing the prices of the gifts, until all of them are gone.
"Dress-up Relay"- Make 2 piles of the same type of clothing. Divide the group into teams and have the first players race to dress up in all the clothes from one pile. When finished, he/she must take all the clothes off and have the next player dress up. The team that dresses and undresses first wins the game.
All very excellent suggestions, meg!!
*I noticed there were more indoor games than outdoor games. You know it's going to rain, too...don't you. Your sister is trying to be all sunshine and roses with me...it's bullshit. ;)
The Power of Expectancy
The power of expectancy shapes our lives. I've found that most of us have either a negative expectancy (things won't work out) or a positive expectancy (things usually work out). There doesn't seem to be a middle ground.
Expectancy controls what we focus on, and what we focus on usually comes about.
Oh.dear.Lord.
Sunshine and roses...I used to be you. I was optimistic and hopeful and weather be damned! I was having a PARTY. And then the first rain-out came...and the second...and the third...and so on, and so on. I used to be known in my circle of friends as 'the girl who totals cars.' Seriously, it was a problem. I've escaped that now, finally...and I am now 'the girl who throws parties in the rain.' I've accepted it, embraced it even.
I had hopes for the 40th birthday party. I bought a tent for SUN. It was a drought. I planned for a band to play outside and rented a jumpy jump. I was hopeful.
The rain came anyway.
You think good thoughts for me and we'll see where we end up.
The solution is very simple Rebecca. You need a weather lab like we had at our Mother's house. (Mom Joy to most.) I can't think of very many Anton fires that got rained out, can you? There was the one that got put out when Hatfield tried to jump it and landed on the middle of it. I think he got a staff infection or something from it. Mom was all worried like Hatfield was going to sue or something. I (of course) told her that that is why she had insurance.
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