Figuring out a Plan B for a huge team party, when nature isn't cooperating
Okay, so by now you've realized that my memory isn't the greatest, that in order to fulfill my writing obligations, I'm backloading the month, and finally, that I still owe you the whole story on the cross country team party. So here it is!
As you recall, on Wednesday, my son informed me that 60 runners, 120 parents and a coach would be at our home for a pasta dinner. And on Thursday, I learned that rain was predicted, so my Plan A to use the outdoor space was no longer viable.
Enter Plan B! I decided to use my garage space for the tables and chairs to seat all the runners. Yes -- that would be the perfect solution to foil Mother Nature! So, I opened the overhead garage door, took my measurements and determined that all the tables would fit in the space. And then I took a look at the corners of the garage ---- you know, the space where the creepy spiders and cobwebs are --- and I looked at the walls of the garage --- where all the kids’ sports equipment land as it unceremoniously gets dumped out of the van at the end of the season. At this point, I began to think that Mother Nature was pulling an awfully nasty trick on me! The vision of the old margarine commercial filled my head….”It’s not NICE to fool with Mother Nature!” Who was I to think that I could top Mother Nature? If I was going to work around her weather issues, she would certainly make me pay by doing some serious cleaning!
The story continues in the next blog!
