Why Do I do This To Myself?!?!!

So I have this Princess House party that I am hostessing tomorrow evening...Tiny Princess seems to have fallen victim to some sort of stomach virus which cause everything to be returned in liquid form (can I just say that I'm so glad I had a box of disposable diapers in the house?), Captain Chaos is still coughing, BB is now done with his antibiotics but is complaining about the color of his snot(seriously folks, a grown man is complaining that his snot is not the correct color), and I'm feeling a bit sore and stiff from being tripped up by the cats earlier today...

When I got home from Moms' Group today, I fed the kids, put them down for naps, and had every intention of doing laundry and ironing, so as to have tomorrow free to do the final scrubbing and polishing of my house in preparation for a relative stranger (is that an oxymoron?) and several friends of varying degrees to arrive around 6pm tomorrow night...

Instead, I found myself on the couch, dozing during Peter Perfect and Split Ends. It was bad news...

I attempted to make some crock-pot soup for dinner that didn't actually end up cooking all the way (how can beans soaked overnight not cook in 8 hours???) so we had hot dogs...mmmm...yummy...

The house is mostly clean, just needs picked up, but I do have a laundry basket of items that need to be put in their homes, and a stack about 2 feet tall of things to be filed.

I have to wash my floors, clean the powder room, sweep and vacuum, spot clean a few spots where the dog slimed (he's a bullmastiff - think Hooch from the movie Turner & Hooch), make BLT Pinwheels, put the Spiced Cider on to mull, and somewhere, in the midst of that, deliver $250 of Mary Kay products to clients, pick up the pre-made dough for the Pinwheels, keep the kids out of BB's hair so he can work, and pray that my guests that didn't RSVP actually do show up...

I am horribly afraid that if no one shows up, I'll have to do another show after the holidays, and I really don't want to do that...

Please pray that Tiny Princess will sleep all night, that I can get a good night's rest, and be energized and ready to work hard during the times when Tiny Princess naps in the morning, and while the kids are sleeping in the afternoon...

I should be in bed right now, even though it is only 9pm...but instead, here I sit, typing madly to vent my frustrations so that I don't lie awake tossing and turning...

Perhaps I'll have something a bit more profound to say this weekend...when I should be getting things sorted and packed to be gone for 16 days.

The only good thing???? The cleaning lady comes on Tuesday, and when we get back, my brother will be here with his family!