Pink Pajama Party

 

Friday

I got up at 7:45 after not having slept well. I took supplements, read messages and made egg salad. One of the videos said that walking backwards helps to lower anxiety. Then I got dressed and took a water bottle to the chapel for Math Morning.

I unlocked the chapel and walked backwards through the sanctuary and hallway to the fellowship hall. I made an unsatisfactory straw star while waiting for the kids to arrive. When they did, some of them had no math books or shoes. I sent them into the sanctuary to count chairs. Then I told Wilhelm to create a times table. I gave him a ruler and he spent the rest of the hour drawing lines and squares. Randy had Jedediah look up three digit numbers. There was no time for the game.

Saronna arrived just before the end of the hour. We packed up and locked the doors. They left and I went home and looked up how to make a star from a straw. I guess I should have used yarn instead of thread. Then I looked at videos on how to cut a 5pt star. I tried, but they were not satisfactory either.

I ate fiber gel, then read for awhile. It was too wet to read outside. Then I made and ate breakfast. Michelle sent me a flyer she had made for the Christmas Eve service. I worked on several ornaments, then taped them to hang from the counter top and photographed them for advertisement for the class tomorrow. Then OpenOffice glitched. I took a screenshot of my blog notes before it went down. Good thing too, because the backup file was nowhere to be found.

We went to the commissary, also stopping at the post office. I picked up the mail and unlocked the swap shop by request. We came home with food, and put it away. We decided not to go to Tooele. I re-created yesterday's post as well as I could. I saved it, then posted to my blog. I read more Rama hints. I went through messages, and then took a nap while Chris made tomato soup.

I stewed over whether to wear my pajamas to go to the party at 7. I put them on. Michelle texted that she needed Christmas lights and to drop them off on my way to the party. I also had to lock the swap shop. So I changed back into my regular clothes and put the pajamas in a bag with a bottle of water, etc.

I swung by the swap shop to lock it, then went by Michelle's house to drop off lights. She said she'd be late to the party. Then I went to the party. I was surprised to see how full the parking lot was. I walked in with the pot of tomato soup that Chris made. Jenni found a place on the table to set it. I went to the bathroom to change into my pajamas. Then I rejoined the party.

The room was decorated in pink, from top to bottom and all the tables. Most people were wearing pink but some had red. Jenni was in blue. There was Christmas music playing from a speaker with lights in the corner. Wendy put a placard on each soup so we would know what it was.

We all got bowls of soup and ate around the square of tables. I counted 2 people. Then Janet had us gather in a corner for a group pic. After that, she had games for us to play. In the first one, she had three people with kleenex boxes strapped to their arms, shake until all the cotton balls inside fell out. There was a winner for each of three rounds, and then a play-off.

The second game was to have three people blindfolded and trying to scoop up cotton balls and dump them into a cup held on their head. There were more than 3 rounds and most people who played got 3 balls in their cup. Janet had to have a number draw to determine the winner.

The third game was like musical chairs. She put red cups around the outside of the square of tables. We walked around the square until the music stopped, then grabbed a cup. One person was out with no cup to grab. But it took so long that she started having 2 or 3 less cups per round. I don't remember who won.

As I chatted with the ladies who were 'out', I found two that would agree to play bells for Christmas Eve. Jenni brought an ornament craft for everyone to do. That seemed to be the end. Michelle left and took Audra home. I went home soon after. But I later saw the pics and apparently they had a good time posing for pics after we left.

It was 10. Chris was still up. I read e-mail on my laptop. Michelle called to talk about the party. I listened to more Psalms. Then we went to bed. Chris' phone rang and he got up to answer. And then we went to sleep.