Yes, it was a perfect day ALMOST... My dear friend Anne and I had decided we wanted to throw a cookie decorating party. Do you know what it takes to plan one of these? Lots of phone calls, dividing lists of who brings what and reminding your friends they each need to bring 2 dozen cookies. I have to say, that was the easy part. Ok, I am going to back up for a minute... and start with the night before.I am getting ready to put the girls to bed and Skyler is VERY cranky and I realize very warm as well. Ok, no big deal we can get through this I say to myself. If you know Skyler she gets a fever for everything even a sniffle. So I thought the party will continue...
Back to the am...
About 6am Skyler wakes us up and she is warm of course so we give her some Tylenol and tell her to stay in bed. At 7:20 I have four little hands knocking at my door - I am babysitting Emma and Carson while our friend Mr. Chris has to go to work. Still everything seems to be running smoothly with the exception of Skyler feeling a little under the weather. After getting the Coble children settled I start working on my to do list for a Party that starts at 2pm. Seems like a lot of time - well barely. P.S. Later that day before Hell broke loose my husband tells me we could have slept until 11 and have plenty of time to get ready for the party (uh huh, I say).
Thankfully I made the cookies with the girls on Thursday after school so that part was done. I did however have to make the icing. That went smoother than I had expected, I thought! During all of this my phone rings Anne has some bad news, Lily threw up last night and she doesn't think she is going to let her come. I told her that Skyler had a little fever but I was going to let her join in anyway, I was confident that it was just a little cold. One of Tony's to do list was to run up to the stores and grab a few things I forgot to think of until last night around 11:30. When he came back I was cleaning up all the mess I had made from making the icing. I showed him all the containers with all the different colors to see what he thought. Well apparently, I had not made nearly enough icing. So as we have in the past we call Anne to settle our marital disputes. She comes over and says oh no Christine that is defiantly not enough. Ok now I am a little frustrated, where has my time gone it is after 11...
So, Skyler comes in the kitchen still feeling pretty warm. I suggested to her that she go upstairs and take a nice shower, I thought that would help her feel better. 3 kids running around the house as I am on my way up to get Skyler started on her shower. Tony's on his way down the steps and there it goes... Skyler throws up everywhere....... Now we are in survival mode... what do we do and how do we fix this. Tony gets his famous mask he uses anytime the kids throw up, and he starts cleaning. I get Skyler undressed and in the shower since she has to have one now.
Ok, what do we do, it is now almost 12:00 and the party is supposed to start in two hours.....
Well, long story short.. not so much. We decided to quarantine Lily and Skyler upstairs in Skylers bed since they had the same symptoms and the party did go on.....
The party was a huge success...all the kids had a great time decorating cookies with more toppings than you could imagine. Even Skyler and Lily where able to join in after our friends left and it was just the neighbor children. Oh, I forgot to mention that we had plenty of icing, in fact we never even used the second batch of icing that Anne and Tony insisted I make. Thanks guys next time leave your opinion to yourself! :)
