Tomorrow is Eli’s first birthday party – his actual birthday isn’t until Monday but having his party on the Saturday means all of his baby group friends can come so on the weekend it is. I love first birthday parties and Eli’s is the last I’ll be organising for a child of my own. We’ve got a semi-theme – cars as Eli likes anything with wheels – so the cake is going to be a garage with little fondant cars. Of course, since it’s us, the cake is still cooking and will have to be decorated tonight. I don’t think we’ve ever done a birthday cake at anything other than the last minute.
We’ve been fairly busy this week and not much preparation has happened at all yet, our birthday party to do list is therefore extensive:
- bake cake (nearly there)
- decorate cake
- buy ingredients for party food
- make party food
- buy the last couple of bits for the party bags (yes for sub-one year olds I know, I know)
- pack the party bags
- clean the house
- clean the house again after the kids invariably undo all the tidying I’ve already done
- panic
- check to see whether Eli still fits in the outfit I want him to wear
- try to work out how we’re going to fit everybody in the lounge as the weather looks unlikely to cooperate (60% chance of rain – Eli was supposed to be my chance to have an outdoor party!)
I’m sure it will be fine, that I haven’t really prepped at all won’t be a problem will it? I mean the party’s only at 1.30pm tomorrow – we’ve ages yet…
Never Knowingly Undercommitted 