Family, Friends and Surprise Party

We've just come through another quite chaotic weekend, and again it was due to a surprise get together and other surprise type things. This time however the party get together, was for my mum.

For several weeks now, we (my two sister's, my brother and me) have been planning a surprise party for my mum on the 10th of september, as well as a special quite expensive present that my mums been wanting for a while now.

The first surprise, for my mum came on friday evening, when my sister walked through the door just after 11 o'clock, having jumped on the train straight after her work, down in Sawbridgeworth. This surprise did have a few slight problems though, because we had to get someone to go down to the station to meet her without my mum knowing, and also the basic problem of keeping my mum awake long enough for my sister to get here.

Come saturday everything we were planning seemed to be running smoothly, however as always, things didn't stay like that for long. My mum on saturday was meant to be exhibiting at a wedding show which was planned to finish at 5pm, although because it was unbelievably quiet they instead finished at 3, which meant we had to tell my mum she couldn't come hope for two hours whilst we finished setting everything up.

After rushing around town to buy food for the party, running around the house putting up decorations, and then getting my mum in the house before guests arrived, the last problem we encountered came about an hour after the first guests arrived. This problem I'd say is a given for any kind of party, which was that some of the guests turned up late.
Overall though, the night went brilliantly, so much better then we could have expected. Everyone had a great laugh, we sat round the kitchen table for hours passing around anecdotes and funny stories and in the end people stayed till after mid-night chatting away.

Now this weekend has passed and everything went well, its time to turn my attention to my move to university. I've already spent most of the day making up lists of what I need to take and have begun digging out the items from my mess of a room. Tomorrow, brings a very large pile of clothes that needs to be ironed, some last minute shopping and packing up the car ready for wednesday. Moving really is stressful, who knew you needed so much stuff to move into a new place.
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