The Prom

Well, prom has come and gone. An event that cost thousands of dollars, many hours, and tons of stress.
Adam and I woke up and after a drive thru breakfast of Chick-Fli we meet my principal at the school to transport the Paris kits, lights and extension cords. We arrived at the conference center to meet with our student and parent volunteers and start creating the perfect backdrop for celebration. Only two kids show up to help. And they only stayed as long as their hair appointments allowed. The parents were great, we wouldn't have been able to do it without them. Adam opened the box to the sixteen foot Eiffel Tower and read the estimated building time. 8 hours! He deserve several jewels on his crown!! The teachers on my committee and the parents worked a long time to put together a tower, gate, lamposts and hook up all the lights. I missed Sela's amazing birthday party. And in the midst of the preparation met our new pastor and his wife while picking up a t shirt order at the church.

We left around five to shower and I needed to get a dress to wear. I was getting nervous about all the things could go wrong. Particularly with the safety of my kids. It just happened to be Greek Week, and we were 100 yards from Fraternity Row where all the spring parties were well under way. I felt like throwing up from the nerves.

The caterer had arrived and set up while I had gone home and cleaned up. The centerpieces that were supposed to look like simple sidewalk cafe decorations ended up being tropical but they looked elegant. The very expensive chocolate fountain ended up being a bowl of chocolate. These ended up being the main problems of the night.

The kids started arriving. They looked beautiful. There were only a few mishaps with the master list but check in seemed to go fine. Lead out for the seniors went smoothly, I got pulled in by Greg a senior I have taught twice and who is in my advisory group. Slightly embarrassing. Crowning of the prom king and queen went well enough. And the party wrapped up a little early with minimal bad behavior. The Prom Queen lost her keys and she was the driver. She was there for hours trying to find them. Clean up and breakdown went quickly with lots of help. Kerri volunteered to drive the trees back to the school. We dropped of the trees and some boxes in the lobby locked the school back up and headed home. We fell into bed around 1:45. I felt giddy and free of stress.

I do have some loose ends to tie up and some extra items to sell off. But overall it went well. And it is over. And there 20 days left in the school year.


These photos are terrible. My batteries were weak so the flash was bad, I used fill light in my editor. So use your imagination to picture low lights and lots of twinklel ights.
Students used glow in the dark sharpies to sign their names on the skyline by the dance floor.