Saturday Night Adventures

Since Friday I've been in terrible pain! Pain on my right side, particularly at the neck and shoulder blade! I was literally unable to move on Friday! Took some pills and stayed in bed most of the day, but nothing did seem to work.
On Saturday the pain was less intense but however i soon realised that i had to forget about it.
As it turned out, some old friends of my DH's relatives were in Adelaide for a visit. They knew each other from India when they were all pioneers there. So this lovely couple were here for a visit and i have no idea how it came about, but everyone decided that they were all going to meet them at our house over dinner this Saturday!
I got the news of that around 5pm on Saturday, I was freaking out!! "Guests are coming over for dinner!!" I yelled out to DH!! lol
The fridge was empty, the house resemble like a battle field between legos, dolls and plush toys!! There were food stains on the couches and carpet!! What a horror!!
I hate receiving people on short notice, specially people that are not so close to me! And specially when my house is a mess!
Anyway, DH did ALL of the cleaning which was really a big task: Putting all the toys away (and there were lots of them), vacuuming the whole house, then mopping all the floors (in every room), then he started to rub off the food stains on the carpet and couches! And the house was so clean!! Shinning and sparkling!!
While he was cleaning, i was cooking the dinner (lots of veggies had to steamed, because the guests of honor only eat steam veggies due to health issues), I also made salad and ordered some pizza and chicken for the other guests, we had over 20 adults and 4 children!
At 6.30, just as we were finishing up the cooking and cleaning, the first group of relatives were knocking at the door (They were early!!). I quickly grabbed DD and took her to the shower. DH quickly got ready and went to let them in. Then he took DD and got her dress so that i could take my shower and get ready.
Slowly all the guests arrived and we had dinner, then tea and desserts.
There was lots of cluster of people sitting around the living and dinning room, chatting and having great laughs.
One of DH's aunty really helped out with the washing up of dishes and she even made the tea for everyone!
DH was proudly making his famous and good tasting coffees and cappuchinos from the new coffee machine that he just bought a couple of weeks ago! And everyone did enjoyed them! They were really good! With the cream & chocolate on top and all!! Yummy!
The evening went on great and i almost forgot that i was in pain, until i looked down at the floor! Black shoe marks everywhere, from the hallway to the toilets! Toys scattered all around the place, DD's room was a mess, could barely make my way through it!!
When the last guests left around midnight, we were all tired but so happy to having them over.
Can't wait to do it all over again!! lol...

Before you ask, DH means Dear Husband and DD means Dear Daughter!