Party Planner!!

Halloween was fun, but oh so exhausting!! The kids had a great time. I have no regrets, just wish I had more time to get things done better. I volunteered as classroom helper in my younger son's classroom. That was at 9am. I really didn't think it would take 2 hours for them to have a parade, but it did! So, after that I had to race out of the school and go home where I needed to get the treats that I prepared for my oldest son's party. I elected to be room mom in his classroom too. His party was not until 1pm, so I had about an hour and a half to do as much as I could to get ready for our home halloween party. Well, of course I stil needed to go grocery shopping and get a costume. So I raced through the grocery store and was able to quickly go to another store across the way to see what I could find for a costume. I found one!! But of course the only costume I found was one without a tag on it. So I needed to wait, ever so patiently, for someone to try and find a SCU number for this costume. I got it and then was able to get to the school on time!! Amazing!! But the caveat was I had a car full of grocery shopping on a beautiful 60 degree day. I was hoping I wouldn't be at the parade/party for too much of the afternoon, but low and behold I left at dismissal.
I got home and just got to work on "our" party. I made sandwiches, brownies, rice crispy treats and filled bowls with Doritos and popcorn. Set tables and cleaned floors, made sure music was on and also a small dinner for the family before the party. The kids got home with the husband and it was perfect!! I was still rushing around right up until like 5 minutes before the first bell, but it was great!! I made great timing considering all I had to do that day. The party was a blast, trick o treating was great fun and the clean-up wasn't that bad. I am just really happy it is behind us and I got great video and pictures and fond memories of an eventful day.
I don't think I would have changed one thing about it all.
Thank-you God for giving me all the gifts to hold it all together and still manage to give advice to a disgruntle relative who called, during the party.