My Royal Day.

It's wedding day! I fell asleep with the TV on last night and woke up at 2am and had to will myself to turn off all the wedding festivities!

And then this morning I was glued to all the morning new's shows. I didn't even pack Ava's lunch because I was so wrapped up in all the wedding news. She wasn't worried, they were serving breakfast for lunch at school today!

I think, actually I know...the reason I got so wrapped up in all this is because it gave me an "escape". All the excitement, love and pageantry...it was a welcome change to a day.

So, after Ava left for school this morning, I had to pry myself away from the TV because I knew...I just knew, if I didn't walk away from it, I would have ended up pressing "play" on the wedding recording!

So now, my biggest question, will Kate ever do her own laundry again? Because I did 6 out of the 8 loads I needed to do today. ha. I'll answer that question, no, she won't. I saw a news story last week that Prince Charles doesn't even have to put toothpaste on his own toothbrush...he has "someone" for that. ha ha. When I heard that...all I could think about was someone elses germs touching my toothbrush. Ick. Speaking of toothbrushes, Jason's is still in the holder...I guess I will throw it away when he gets home and replace it with a new one. Same with the honey sitting on his bathroom counter. He was sick the day he left...he swears that honey and whiskey will cure a cold...needless to say, he couldn't have the whiskey that day...but he had honey and I can't bring myself to take it back to the kitchen. So there it still sits.

Wait, this blog is supposed to be about the wedding. So, Let's get back to it!

Ava was our party planner. She decided on all the food and helped me pick it out at the store. Funny story, when we went to buy our food...I left my wallet at home and had to have them hold my cart so I could run home. Actually, that wasn't funny at all. It was mortifying and just further prolonged our princess party! I wonder if the new princess has to worry about having her wallet or not?

So, our food was not "English" food. It was good ol American food according to a 5 year old. Thank goodness, my 5 year old LOVES fruit and veggies. Minus the 2 cakes!

The drinks were my version of a Pimm...the girls LOVED them! Ava said, I have never drank out of a wine glass before...

And then Layla struggled to take a drink...

It then went into a "child friendly" cup since Layla is notorious for spilling at least one drink a day...she hadn't spilled one today...so I wasn't taking chances with a wine glass!

Ava was more interested with the fruit inside than drinking it!

Now, time to watch the Royal's arriving at the wedding and the wedding!

I can't tell you how many questions I had to answer! Ava was so enthralled with everything! Mostly, she wanted to know where the queen was!

When she saw the queen, she said, "she's old, but she doesn't look mean." And then when I told her that Kate borrowed her tiara from the Queen, Ava said, "wow she really isn't mean, she's a nice queen." Do princess movies really portray queens as being mean?

Finally, the new princess...the girls waved and waved at her like they were standing on the side of the road!

Then, Ava wanted to know why they weren't at a castle. I told her they were getting married in a church...that's when it all went downhill. Appearantly, out of everything, Ava just really wanted to see a castle.

So now, 5 minutes into the wedding...they were somewhere else!

Yeah, about this time I told them they could go in the mancave and watch TV if they wanted...they were gone! So now, I have the rest of the wedding to watch alone...but by golly, I had fun with them up until now!

What I really want to see...pictures and video from the all night party they are having tonight! ha ha!

Two more tidbits! Ava's first school picture, yeah, I forgot that it was picture day...who does pictures on a MONDAY? Needless to say, I'm a bad Mom and didn't order them. They had spring pictures last week and we got the proofs today...She is beautiful!

Also, my roses have not died yet, and my finger has not fallen off. In fact, One of my roses decided to bloom today and it smells and looks beautiful!

So, to wrap it up. I am glad I did not get up at 1am to watch the wedding. It had the same effect on me watching it this evening as it would have this morning. Ava now wants to go to England to see the castles...and Layla just wants to wave at the Princess.

This was the last big thing I had to look forward to before Jason comes home. Now, guess what I am looking forward to!