1. Call your mother. Complain that you don't know if you'll even have a party, it's a lot of work, do people want to come, etc. This is the most essential step!
2. Call your father-in-law. Ask for permission to throw the party at his house. (This ensures minimal cleaning/preparation for you.)
3. Take offers of help. When someone volunteers to make a dish, say yes, no matter what it is.
4. Buy decorations and gift bags, but allow your mother to also buy the decorations she wants to have there too.
5. Arrive several hours early, but invite all your family to arrive early as well. This way you have help setting up.
6. Corral your husband into doing all the grilling.
7. When your guests arrive, make connections for them, so that they may entertain themselves.
8. Remember to purchase "big" play toys so the other kiddos at the party have something new to play on.
9. Enlist your friends and family (the stragglers) in the clean-up of the house that's not yours.
10. Sit back and enjoy your party baby!
Grampy York made Lucy this delicious cake. Thanks Grampy!
Waiting patiently to be fed.
Lucy enjoying her slice.
This is Lucy's friend Ellee. Her first birthday is in a couple of weeks so Lucy was showing her the ropes: how to open presents, which bows give the best shake and sparkle, etc.
Though Lucy has been walking for a week or so now she refused to lift her hands off the ground at the party and did this orangutan thing all day.
The new slide toy was a hit with everyone. Lucy was too short to go up the steps so she just climbed the slide. Her friend Marin is at the top waiting to slide down. She was NOT happy with Lucy for dawdling on the slide.
Lucy coming out of her new play tent with her new toy. It's not enough to have a play tent, the play tent must contain as many toys as can fit.
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