I have five days left until Cordy’s birthday party. That means five days to accomplish the following things:
- Order a cake from the grocery
- Plan food to feed everyone
- Call people who haven’t RSVP’d, so I know how many to feed
- Do laundry so she has something nice to wear
- Celebrate her actual birthday on Thursday
- Take Cordy to the evil doctor on Friday for her check up and shots.
- Get the carpets cleaned (my mother insisted on this one)
- Find some decorations lying around the house from last year’s party
- Dismantle the dining room table to provide more room
Basically, a lot of little stuff to do, just to have a casual birthday party. The hardest part will involve getting the carpets cleaned. We haven’t cleaned the carpets in the two years we’ve lived in our house, and well, we have three cats and a small child, so you can imagine how grungy they are. My mother insisted that we have the carpet cleaned before anyone came over, and she’s paying for it to be done.
But before the carpets can be cleaned, the clutter that is currently obscuring the view of the carpet must first be cleared out. Which means taking all of Cordy’s toys, all of my knitting supplies and magazines, and all of Aaron’s gaming stuff and banishing it to some other part of the house.
Essentially, I have to start with this…
…and remove everything except the large furniture.
Maybe I should start saving to have wood floors put in?
We have that smae pirate ship. My kids LOVE it.
My living room looks like this most of the time.
Wood floors. It’s the only way to go.
However, the toys scattered haphazardly are an eclectic look. You could just leave it like that for the party and not worry about crumbs on the carpet or people walking on the carpet with shoes on.
Have fun with the bday party.
Want to do my house while you’re at it?
We actually did that instead of having to keep up the cream carpets with which our first house came…the wood floors bit, I mean.
Well, just don’t pick up and no one will ever notice that the carpets need cleaned!! Ha!
Good luck!!! lol I am glad that I am not in your place right now.
I hear ya — my son’s b-day party is in about 2 weeks and we have to break out the carpet cleaner, too! Not looking forward to it.
hi, i’m here from crazyhipblogmamas. your house is gorgeous. i love the clutter. looks like your little momma is having a great time.
i can’t believe your mom wants to get the carpets cleaned BEFORE tons of kids come over.
sounds like its going to be a fun time 🙂
Honestly, non-carpeted floors can be as much of a PITA, because EVERYTHING shows up. I don’t know how much your cats shed, but with Dodger and Leo, I have to vacuum at least every other day. And, as Nico learned, wood floors make it a lot more difficult to sit on the floors and lean against things!
Yeah, you have to mop wood floors pretty regularly. I would kill for wall to wall carpet at this point. Good luck with the birthday party! During the last hours before Aveline’s first birthday party, I kept thinking to myself that it seemed way too stressful for something she will never remember. I guess the party is more for the adults.
Be sure to celebrate not only her birthday, but your two year survival date. Enjoy a nice cold sparkling cider or something else bland and vice free that only pregnant women have to endure. I’m sorry. I just got done being pregnant for 18 out of the last 25 months and I’m still a bit bitter with nearly a year of lactating before me. I’m ready to have my body back for me alone.
Wood floor? Just like the deck of a pirate ship. 🙂