it's all about the box(es)

Today is my baby girl's birthday...three years ago I was in labor, and ready to greet my little Pea. Last night I was in labor as well, a slightly less painful one, granted, but a labor of love nonetheless. I was assembling favor boxes for the little one's birthday party at her school. The party will be tomorrow, but since my girls are coming over tonight to celebrate the little Pea, and I imagine many glasses of wine will be consumed, I figured it best to knock them out early to make sure they got done...thank God I did.

When I originally ordered these boxes I blithely assumed they would already be boxes and filled with goodies...after all that was what the picture in the catalog showed. Imagine my surprise when a rather small box showed up on my door step from the company I had ordered them from. I opened the box to discover bags of goodies, and a stack of brightly printed cardboard and directions. Of course, duh...I am supposed to turn this stack of cardboard into 17 favor boxes and then fill them with the loot. Me, moi, the mommy, all by myownself, and since I am without an engineering degree (seriously Smash, could have used your help, wow) with much trouble.

See, these were no ordinary little boxes, no, no...these were FANCY, and so required the removal of section A, but NOT section B, and the folding down of part 1, but NOT part 2, and the insertion of tab F into slot G and so on, and so on, AND SO ON...O.M.G!!! What I thought, upon sitting down at 8pm with my glass of wine and remote, to be an hour long project easily completed while watching football and sipping Pinot Grigio turned into a battle. A hard fought battle that ended up outlasting the game and with MUCH cussing. I was ready to throw each one of those $5 not yet assembled boxes in the trash and gleefully set them afire...fortunately I remembered they were $5 each and did not. They are all assembled and sitting on my kitchen table, with the cupcakes and party hats for tomorrow's party.

I think next year, we will have goodie BAGS.