'The event I was catering was my little girl Immy’s third birthday party. But, given how stressed I felt, I may as well have been having royalty round.' ✍️ Sarah Whiteley writes for MetroOpinion
‘Do you think we have enough food?’ I worried to my husband, TomAs he looked at the piles of sausage rolls, breadsticks and overflowing platters of sandwiches, Tom laughed. ‘There is enough here for double the amount of guests we have coming,’ he assured me.
Tom and I have very little experience of children’s parties. My eldest child, Theo’s first birthday was celebrated in the function room of a pub with a load of toys we’d bundled over, alongside copious amounts of prosecco and beer. His second, just after Immy was born, was very similar, but in a different pub with a kid’s play room.
The nursery staff gave me a couple more names of the children she spent time with and eventually, adding to my best friends’ children, and my niece and nephew, I thought we had a good number. Enough to make the soft play area we’d booked out feel busy enough without it being too overwhelming. Then, the woman who was making Immy’s cake messaged. She’d been in hospital. ‘I won’t let you down, the cake is made and decorated,’ she assured me. ‘But I can’t deliver it.’ Another spiral – the party was starting at 10am and we had to arrive at 9.30 to set it up, there was no way we’d have time to drive three miles in the wrong direction to pick it up.So now, the morning had finally arrived and I’d moved onto panicking about the food.
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