Task #38: Throw A Surprise Party (Kim)

38.  Throw A Surprise Party

My mom's birthday is tomorrow, and she warned us not to throw her a surprise party.  So, she headed to Bistro Mediterranean thinking that I was going out to babysit and that my dad was taking her out for a nice dinner.  When she arrived, she found not only her five kids but two of her sisters and their husbands there to surprise her.  My mom is usually the person who knows everything that's going on in the house and the family, so it was entertaining to fill her in on the nearly eighty e-mails and jokes sent in preparation for this party.

Here are some photos from dinner and a video of the surprise and present opening:

My mom's brother and my brother worked together to bring three cakes to the ouse after dinner.

My mom was the most surprised to see her family at the table.

My mom opening her presents after dinner.

Task #11 Completed: Say "Yes" to an Odd Job (Rachael)

I have performed many  miscellaneous jobs over my 17 years, so how does this one in particular qualify as something I've never done? Well, the reasons it qualifies for this project in particular is due to the lack of qualifications I had for the job, aka I was hired as a face painter at a 3-year old's Orthodox Jewish birthday party.

Now I am the type of person who could think they were drawing a beautiful sunset and later have someone misinterpret it as a deformed Octopus. So I was pretty terrified by the fact that I would be drawing on human faces. Okay now that I have given the gist of the situation there are a few realizations that I would like to share.

• It is very very, very, very, important to test the paint before you arrive otherwise you may end up with paint chunks on a child's face.
• Surprisingly enough, a parent will not tell their kid if the drawing on their cheek looks as if the artist attempted with their eyes closed.
• Klezmer music for 4 hours can be found very relaxing. 
• There is no room for mistakes when a child asks you to paint their hand (they'll eyeball you the entire time -no pressure)
• The kids will eventually get bored and if you so choose to entertain them they will do all or any of these five things:
  

  
  

  1) Ask you to take pictures of them doing flips

  2)  Force you to do the Macarena with them
  
  3) Ask to paint on the right side of your face
  
  4) Ask to paint on the left side of your face
  
  5) Ask to draw on your forehead  

  To which you will only have one choice: let the madness ensue.