Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Easter

As a little laugh before Easter, I thought I would post an email I sent to a friend right after Easter 2006. It was D1's first Easter, and in honor of that, Hubby and I decided to host our very first Holiday dinner with Hubby's family - his parents, brother and his girlfriend, Grandmother, Aunt and Uncle and Cousins. We were going to try to fit all those people into our tiny little house and impress the heck out of them with our well cooked food and great hospitality.

And of course, that's not how it went:

My Easter was a disaster. It started Saturday - my sciatica started giving me trouble, which it hasn't bothered me in probably 2 years, but it kicked in, so I totally didn't get half the stuff done that I needed. So Sunday started with me way behind. Luckily Hubby's Bro and his girlfriend came early and helped. But still I was behind. 30 mins before everyone was coming, I was just getting around to putting the ham in the oven. Before I could do this, we spied my neighbor (house behind me) passing out and falling to the ground. I ran over first, with Hubby a few seconds behind. We thought he was dead - so scary. Here he's diabetic and passed out from that. He hit his head on the driveway pretty hard and was bleeding. So we called 911. Then while we were waiting for them, I drove over to his church (very funny - me and an all black baptist church) to get his wife. Needless to say, I was a little frazzled by that. So I opened up the wine :) and started drinking :) drinking a little too much, to be exact :) Well, all the food managed to get into the oven, late, but that was ok. Then everything but the pineapple stuffing was done, so we decided to start with the salad while that finished up. Hubby complained to me that he was worried about the stuffing because it was dripping, and the oven was a little smokey. I told him not to worry about it. A few minutes later he checked on it again, and oooops! The oven was on fire. Really bad. We all had to leave the house and Hubby had to use the fire extinguisher on the oven (still haven't cleaned it yet - yuck!). It wasn't too horrible, actually. I think we only had to wait @30 mins before we could go back into the house :) Luckily Ham tastes good cold. Next, I decide to toast D1 for her excellent gene pool, and manage to drop my entire glass of wine all over Hubby's plate. Hmmmmm..... who do you think was angry by this point? Then, I find the whole event hilarious, so I go upstairs to take care of D1 and decide to call my parents, forgetting of course that the monitor was on. A classy kind of day :) I'm lucky my husband is still speaking to me.

I wanted to talk to you, I have great visions for D1's Bday party and wanted your advice. I'm hoping this time the fire will be elevated to the point of needing fire trucks. Every kid loves fire trucks :)No seriously, wanted to talk to you about baking and stuff.

And that was our first try at Holiday Entertaining! We haven't done an Easter at our house since.

Happy Easter, and if you're hosting, here's hoping it is Smoke Free!

8 comments:

Just Jiff said...

LMAO.
OMG.
That is SO. FUNNY.!!

Thanks, I needed that laugh today!

Anna said...

You have more than your fair share of adventures! I think they could base a sitcom on your life -- seriously -- that new In the Motherhood show is about you right?!

Unknown said...

Oh. Wow. That is the coolest Easter I have ever heard of!

mechmom said...

I'm a friend of the other JL. I asked her if this was really a true story and she said it was! I had to comment just to let you know that I've been reading your blog for a few months and it often makes me LAUGH OUT LOUD! :)

Jenny Henny said...

Welcome, MechMom - yes it really is a true story! It's from a saved email 3 yrs ago!

I'm glad everyone enjoyed

gosling_dad said...

I have only one comment....it will not seem relevant to THAT Easter but to THIS Easter. When you are absolutely sure you have selected the right Princess from the many.....its always the other one.

Heather said...

Bless your heart! That was some day. I bet you never forgot to turn off the baby monitor after that ;-)

Valerie @ Inner Child Fun said...

You know what they say... It's not a party until the house catches on fire. Or, um... something like that!