Bringing up Baobao etc.

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

A Piece of Cake

What's so difficult about having a party? Not when you really enjoy doing it and you are efficient. So, in my case, it's been a piece of cake.

Saturday routine carried out as usual. During the ballet in the morning, I went to pick up a few more items for the decoration and loot bags. During Sienna's Chinese class in the afternoon, I rushed home and got the house in order for the party. Afterwards, the whole family went shopping at Costco and got most of the party food there. At night we went out to eat with Rachel's family until 9:30. Got Sienna to bed around 10:30pm. Rachel came home with us for sleep over because nobody would have the time to drop her off or pick her up on Sunday.

Yesterday morning, I got up around 7:30am. Started making 2 dishes from the scratch - 75 spring rolls & a big pot of seafood (calamari, shrimp & scallops) fried rice. I decided not to have bagel at the last minutes. In between, around 8:30am, I went to give Sienna a bath and got her into her regular clothes. Dad took Sienna and Rachel to have breakfast at MacDonald and to pick up helium-filled balloons. I continued to cook. By the time they came home around 10:45, all was done. I went to take a shower and got Sienna into her Princess dress. Then around I1:25am, I started laying out food and drinks: veggie dip, smoked salmon, shrimp ring, green seedless grapes with tomatoes, then, the chicken nuggets and pizza got heated up. The first bunch of guests showed up right on time at 12:pm. We had 26 adults and kids all together.

They started leaving around 3pm. By the time it was 6:30pm, I was already on the couch, having done with cleaning up and putting away things. Without the decoration, the house would have looked like nothing had ever happened.

Some moms complain they need a vacation after birthday parties like this. Well, for me, this was merely a vacation.

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