Here, because I missed my Thursday 13, I'll share...
1. Our house was packed with people from Thursday night until Monday at about 3 in the afternoon. Some moments were more crowded than others (we could barely move during the Super Bowl), but our place was definitely Party Central. Those shopping and sightseeing trips I thought would happen? No. We all wanted to be together every minute.
2. We had people here from Oregon, California, British Columbia, Costa Rica (by way of Seee-dro Wooley), Snohomish, Marysville, Mt. Vernon, Oak Harbor, and probably another local city or two that I'm forgetting. I think the people from out-of-state (country) outnumbered the locals, though. Thanks for doing all that driving, guys!
3. The kids had FUN. They laughed (and laughed and laughed); they played; they romped; they laughed; they talked, built, cooperated, shared, sympathized, negotiated, chipped in, helped out, and danced. And did I mention that they laughed?
4. Unschoolers don't eat very much. Or Frank cooks enough for a full-blown conference. One of the two. Either way, we had enough food for the weekend for everybody except the vegetarians. (Sorry, Qacei!)
5. The water in Cajun boiled shrimp does not have tomatoes in it. It's red from the cayenne. This became more apparent when we all started coughing from the fumes and had to open windows and doors. But it was worth it!
6. Kapla blocks are the greatest. Gillian and Craig are the greatest for having them shipped to my house in time for the party (even if they were so cruel as to take them away when they left). And Harper gets the NCN Kapla Greatness Award for his amazing creations and for being tall enough to reach the ceiling.
7. We played Football Cliché Bingo.
At first I was worried it was a mistake, because we all quit talking so we could listen to the announcers. But that didn't last long. And the moments when one of the camera shots or beer ads came up (things that appeared on every card), the room erupted with excitement. "Cheerleaders!"
8. What does an unschooling mom do when she has 30 people coming over for a Super Bowl party? She drops everything and takes her kid to get a new hole in her head. I might have been just a wee bit less than gracious about it, but I did it. And so did she.
9. We forgot Matteo.
In the mad rush to transfer the party Saturday night, we all grabbed our own kids and left the house. We got to the Party Palace and I noticed he was missing. "Hayden, where's Matteo?" "Oh, I think he stayed home." gasp choke "Do you mean at MY house?!" I called home, and sure enough, Matteo answered. Fortunately, he's 12 and not 2, and fortunately, we were only ten minutes away. And running back to get him gave me a chance to grab the less vital things we had forgotten.
10. The Found Items Raffle was really, really cool. People supplied—and won—a ton of cool stuff.
11. Viola and Ali don't wear thongs. But having them tossed into their laps still distracted them from their disappointment when they didn't win the ponies. And Mary and Diana found it pretty hilarious, too.
12. It wasn't a perfect non-con, because the Traaseths weren't there. We really missed you guys!
13. Doing the Time Warp was probably my favorite moment. Of course it was fun to do the dance (badly in my case), but the coolest part was looking out at all of MY people smiling at us from the audience. Of course, what else could they do but smile?
1 comment:
aw, you're sweet :)
I think you still had some fun. ;)
It really looks like everyone was enjoying themselves, very cool. I was looking for peoples new tattoos, but it was piercings right? One brave MJ!
I'd be up for a new tat at next year's celebration, anyone else? I know Jon and Conor have thought about it :)
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