I like to be prepared

So I start way early preparing for Graduation and the Open House. I started preparing some plans the year my children entered high school. Now I am down to my baby, my youngest child will graduate in May. He will walk across the stage with other home schoolers from our state and accept his High School Diploma.

So I will start making graduation and open house invitations

Now the first of the year is here the coupon codes will start popping up for graduation and open house invites. The Graduation ones will cost me the most but I will still get a great deal on them. The Open House Invites I will end up getting free watching for codes buying them in 10 at a time and we will end up with 3 or 4 different designs. I like to do things on a budget without sacrificing all the bells and whistles.

This year we plan to host in our home

Well that is if we ever get moved. Hopefully we will be moved by then if not I will have to throw a sticker on the where and when for the open house invites and that will be tacky. Hopefully that doesn't happen. And we are in our home. We have plenty of parking there and lots of room to host on our property. So that was the plan for his Open House. We were kind of looking forward to hosting it there and saving rental fees to rent some place for 6 hours.

The Menu

My son wants a nacho bar for his Open House. Score for mom that is easy and cheap to do. I like to save money, and I spend a little bit of time researching to make sure I am getting the best price. (Sometimes that can back fire, thinking at the moment how I am still waiting to move into my house, but that is a state, city issue as of now and no longer a builder issue) And for my kid to want one of the cheapest things for me to do for a menu for lots of people. Has me happy about shopping when the time comes for this one.

I enjoy hosting family events

I do enjoy hosting events for my family and love when everything goes as planned. I am hoping that I don't have to change any of the plans for the open house. Last year I had the location rented the first day I could book for this year for my youngest daughter's open house. Everything went smoothly because I had the foresight to book early. I am worried if for some reason we are not in the house yet. That I won't be able to find a good location to host it at, the good locations do get booked early.

So I will plan it like there will be no issues

Hopefully we won't has any issues and will be in our home way before May. And I am gonna just go along planning like there is none. That things will work themselves out and if for some reason the location has to be changed at the last minute I am going to have faith we will find something that works and is a good location.