Dinner party - my turn.

 

I am ashamed to say that I am only doing the dinner party thing now. Time goes by so quickly when you are busy freaking out about what you will feed your guests when it is your turn to be the hostess.

 

But I’ve come up with a cunning plan. I’ve found a caterer who will make the food for me!  I know, I know, I am pathetic. But honestly, I HATE cooking, I suck at it and it will just be a stressful and unpleasant experience if I attempt to make something myself.  This way I can relax, enjoy myself and not worry myself to death that I will have inadvertently poisoned my guests. I’ve obviously told my guests that I am getting a caterer.  They know I can’t cook.

 

I am not sure what she is going to make yet.  I’ve given her a budget to work with and she is going to come with suggestions tomorrow.  I am quite excited. I’ve invited the original couple (from across the road), the couple next door (also have twins) and a young couple from up the road.  The woman went to school with my little sister and they have a little boy of about 20 months I think. 

 

The only potential fly in the ointment is that I’ve made the fatal mistake of always been v e r y quiet when the babies go to sleep at night.  I know, I should have never done that but I was so bloody grateful that they eventually went to sleep when they were little that we tiptoed around in case we woke then up again.  Ever since then Marko and I are very quiet once they are in bed, we put the phones off and hardly talk to each other. Which is just as well because he is being a major asshole at the moment and I might actually never speak to him again.  Dickhead. But that’s a whole other story, we wont go there now.

 

Anyway, I am a little nervous that the babies will wake up a million times when we have our dinner party.  I don’t suppose I can ask the guests to whisper, can I?  And if that is not bad enough, the guest loo is right next door to Adam’s room, so every time someone flushes, it sounds like waves crashing in his ear.  Perhaps I can ask the guests to pee before they arrive and hold it in until they leave.  It’s not as if they have far to go to reach home. Or else I could politely suggest they pee in the garden.

 

Hmmm, regretting all that tiptoeing around now.

 

Anyway, dinner party on for Saturday night. Feel so grown up. V excited. Should be fun.

 

Comments

[Liz]

hah, maybe you can ask them to pee at your next door neighbor's. but garden isnt a bad idea, you get free fertilizer at the same time. :)

[MsShad]

Put some sort of white noise in their rooms, immediately. Or music. So they'll be used to it by Saturday nite.

[Jane-Marie]

Well if the kids are screaming they'll get the hint and leave and then you can have quiet in your home for the babes to sleep :)

White noise suggestion - great idea!

[Jodie]

The catering is a FABULOUS idea. Having a dinner party is about the hosting, and having fun, not who does the cooking.

Noise, well, we did the quiet thing for our first. Made life a bit tough when people came over, but we generally find in the first few hours she sleeps really deeply. After about 11/12 she's more easily woken up.

Do you have another loo? Seriously, we used to make guests use our ensuite toilet because the other one was opposite my daughter's room. They didn't mind at all.

Our son has grown up with a very noisy 4 year old around, and we're in a tiny house (temporarily) so he's bomb proof.

Good luck with the dinner, I'm sure it will be fantastic!!!!

[Jodie]

PS A fan or airconditioner on might help with the noise.

[andrea]

Wow a cater "flash" lol!

[Coral]

Agree with MsShad. Radio on now, in prep for Sat night! You are going to enjoy yourself!

[cath]

radio on now. definitely.

get rose in, so that if they wake up, she can go in and see to them.

i pray for a rose daily, T. i really do.

[Lauryan]

Catering is sooo much more fun than actually cooking - and then there are less dishes to worry about as well - so it's a double bonus! :)

Perhaps to get the kiddies used to the noise start playing music in their rooms at night (Majors for minors is lovely and apparently assists in brain development at the same time!! - Extra bonus!) Alternatively, leave the doors open each night this week and keep the tv and phones on so that they get used to it.

Good luck! - You fabulous hostess you!

PS - what are you going to wear??!!??

[sheilah]

"I’ve obviously told my guests that I am getting a caterer. They know I can’t cook."

I'm sure your guests are more relaxed now too.

[Flicka]

I don't suppose that flushing every half hour each night until the big party will help, will it?

[goodsandwich]

Don't beat yourself up about the tiptoe-ing -- it's just as likely that they never would have adjusted to the noise. Ours hasn't yet and we've tried him with periodic noise and it's ALWAYS backfired.

[JennyK]

Second (or third) the white noise machine suggestion. We've got one in each kid's room -- they can sleep through dogs barking with those things!

[Leslie]

Yea caterer! The only way to go, but I would have transferred the food into my pans and pretended that I made it myself. Their low expectations turn into them being impressed that I do "know" how to cook. That kind of thing cracks me up.

Have a wonderful time and stay away from downtown. Things sounds a little crazy there right now.

[Rayne of Terror]

Yes for white noise. We have used it before and it helps mask other noises in the house.

[Tessy]

Put a loud fan in their room and run it for white noise. It will drown everything else out. I do this nightly with mine. You can put in on low for a little noise and on high when other things are going on in the house.