uninvited houseguests!

We had plans with our very good friends Tracy and Martin this week end. When I talked to Tracy on Saturday morning I thought it was a go since Amelia had been sleeping for 14 hours straight and counting... When she finally did wake up she was miserable and her mood didn't improve as they day went on. Dale called to cancel and left a message on their machine. We headed over to Aiden's preschool fall festival and then it was dinner time so we stopped and picked up a pizza. Aiden and Amelia were both cranky. (I was counting minutes until bedtime). I put Aiden's dinner plate on the table and at the same moment the doorbell rang. It's local election time around here and I thought it was another candidate interrupting our dinner. But no... it was our friends (family of four) with all their overnight stuff standing on our doorstep. Not only were we sitting down to eat dinner without them but the house was mess, laundry everywhere...awkward moment.... Nope- these are our great friends. We laughed, told them the story, quickly stuffed the pizza back in the box ( brought out the dinner I had prepared in the morning ) and we had a great time. Aiden was so happy to see his buddy Paxton, Amelia was smiling at Martin and content to be held by someone other than her parents. We wound up having a good visit with our friends but for a moment it was sheer panic....doorbell ringing.