So, yesterday was recovery from Party #1 and sleepover, along with preparing the house for Party #2.  Today we have 24 people coming to enjoy a day of fun and frivolity.  Okay…so fun, but I’m not one for too much frivolity.  😉

We have volleyball, swingball, basketball, ladder golf, and bocce all set and ready to go, and the deck will finally be christened with a large event.   I was up at 5:30 and at the grocery store by 6:00am, Dunkin Donuts coffee in hand to do my grocery shopping without a screaming toddler screeching for every round fruit in the store…(he’s obsessed with balls as you already know, so getting through the produce department is a feat.)  Now, I’m off to prepare fruit salad, about 10 pounds of hamburger, and bake a mac and cheese, along with shucking and halving a crapload of corn.  I will try to photograph along the way, but I’ll make no promises!  Thinking of my Newport cyberbuddies!

As Shrew is travelling the coast from Joisey to Newport, RI, I am home, preparing for Little Girl’s birthday dinner.  She turned a whole seven years old today, and we’re having Neighbors over for homemade pizza, cake and ice cream, and a follow-up sleepover for the four biggest kids.  My home smells like dough, cake, pizza sauce, Clorox, and the cinnamon candles I’ve been burning all day to mask the “old house” smell that always comes out when it rains.  Interesting mix to be sure.

So, since food is a requirement this week, I took a photo of the groceries I bought this morning.  🙂

These bags contain the fixings for three homemade pizzas, cake, ice cream, and the ever necessary popcorn, and float/milkshake fixings for tonight’s sleepover.  There are a number of other necessities in there as well, including something called a Santa Claus melon???

More later.  Hey Shrew, how was that “lobsta lunch?!”