Sunday, August 2, 2009

How to Kill Yourself Without Really Trying




Volunteer to host the family reunion.

Most of my week went like this:
Driving
Shopping
Sweating
Driving
Shopping
Sweating
Driving
Shopping
Unload the car

Shop,
Drive,
Shop
Sweat
Unload the car

Organize
Bake
Cook
Sweat
Clean the dishes
Thank Mom and Susan for helping with the food

Pick up Chris
Set up Tables
Set up Chairs
Sweat
Line the tables with plastic
Get the food and bring it over
Pack more things in the car
Help! Morgan threw up :(

Unload the car and set up:
Children's Games
Raffle
Family sign-in table
Sweat

Take a shower and bring more things I forgot to bring
Greet the family and set the final dinner items out.
Call my husband in a panic for items we need
Sweat
Emcee the family reunion
Headache
Eat
Run the Bingo Game
My camera died for good :(
Run the Raffle
Clean up
Sweat
Get home and take another shower
hobble to bed
stay awake till 3 am cause my legs are throbbing


I want to thank my Mom for helping so much with food and serving dishes. Susan too, and for buying raffle tickets. Thank you Glen, Heidi and Hanna for helping with the dishes. Thank you Chris for watching my kids while I went shopping, and for helping set-up and clean up and run the children's games, and staying with me till the bitter end. Thank you Andrew for being my go-to-guy and my massage therapist :)

Maybe a 10 K would have been easier?

Children's games included "tight rope" walk aka a 2x4 taped to the floor, hoop race aka masking tape "hoops"which the kids ran through football-training style, throw a frisbee through a hoop, flag relay race and roll a lemon in a straight line.


Susan, Elke and Art
Raffle ticket mania! Fill em out with your name.
Don and David
Ah, my sweet mom at the family check-in table. :)
Jackson, Tina and Heidi
Faye, Art, Jenn, Elke, Kelsey and Meagan

That's me below hosting the "23 Questions" game. I had people fill out a questionnaire and then I picked a few to read and people had to guess who it was.
If they got it right they got a prize.
I'm a little tired today. Tomorrow it's cleaning up the "tornado"

3 comments:

  1. You are the WOMAN! Sounds so so fun. And yes, you deserve to be exhausted! Phew!

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  2. Oh my gosh, Debbie, I was totally laughing at this post!!! Thank you; it was just what I needed!! It's sometimes amazing that we don't roll over dead after going through all those things!

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  3. YOU are freakin' AMAZING!!! I so wanna be you when I grow up...um, maybe without all the sweat ♥

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