Who's idea was this anyway?!

Have you ever heard of Modbe? I hadn't until about 2 weeks ago, when Aimee was invited to an open house at her friend's house. She insisted that she had to go, because she heard there would be cute, modest tankinis there to try on and buy. Next thing I know, I am commiting to have people over to my house to host a Modbe fiesta . . . which meant 8 hours of house cleaning and a $50 trip to Costco for refreshments, not to mention also a $16 trip to the "Dogroom" (because I wouldn't want a guest to have to smell our stinky Beagle.) I decided it was worth paying for the dog to be bathed when after I had the family room floor all vacuumed, the dog went in and starting rolling around and rubbing his hairy back all over my carpet, which seems to always happen instinctively within an hour or so of the carpet being vacuumed. Paying the dog groomer is always money well spent.
Well, I started cleaning house as soon as the kids left for school. I never did get my bath/shower for the day before it was time for the Modbe consultant to arrive. . . . I managed to throw a little make-up and perfume on instead.
Aimee and Sam each brought a cousin home from school with them and Sarah called to see if she could bring a friend home, which I said "no" to, reminding her that she had a mess in her room to clean up, a violin lesson at 4:00pm, and two softball games at 5:30pm and 6:45pm. After her trying to convince me that her friend could help her clean her room, go with her to her lesson, and then go together to the game (being on the same team) . . . I finally won out and she came home alone. We picked up her friend right after her lesson. I ran four kids to the ball park at 5:15pm, where Jon would go straight from work, and then I hurried home to greet the guests. Aimee did get her room cleaned, so it could be used as a dressing room, I think Ashley did a little picking up, and they both finally helped in the kitchen when I was in panic mode, running out the door to the ball park. Jacob was smart to not come home until the "party" was ending.
The open house was supposed to go from 6 to 8pm, but most of the guests arrived at 8:00pm or later. (Several people came that I didn't know, but had heard about the open house at Mutual night, where they looked through a catalog that someome took with them from my house earlier in the evening.) It was a busy evening with swimsuits and catalogs flying. Two bathrooms and four bedrooms were used as changing rooms!
The good thing I guess that comes from doing something like this, is that it saves having to take myself and three daughters to find modest swimsuits (we like) and go through the torture of trying them on in various store dressing rooms. Or else, order something on-line and wonder if it will fit right. We did earn about $80 credit toward what we want to buy . . . and it turned out to be quite the gathering of young women and their mother's (a "girl's night out" of sorts.) I do think it will be a long time before I commit to do anything like this again!
I am glad I got my house cleaner than it has been in a while, although my kitchen floor needs a re-mopping.
Janae came with four of her girls. The little ones, were quite entertained by the hamster and the cat. The dog was mostly outside or in his room, occassionally circling the kitchen table and playing vacuum cleaner. Jon brought Lily home with Sarah and her friend Mikayla at the end of their softball game, about 8:15pm. They and several others tried on suits for a while longer. The party didn't really end until after to 10:oopm. I think the consultant finally left about 10:50pm.