The Importance of having a Theme - or a baby happened

Well, I was going to write about the importance of having a theme for ones Halloween party. However, today my just turned 2-years-old daughter refused to take her nap due to teething issues. Screams, tears and snot. It reminded me of our 3rd Halloween party. Despite the fact that we were 1st time parents, had a daugter who refused to sleep and thus had kept us awake for the almost 2 months that she had been in our lives, I insisted on throwing a Halloween party. I did scale it down a bit to only 6 adults and had the guests bring a pie each. And some of them even brought a cake. Oh bliss. I decorated our apartment a week before the party, made an easy entree and bought icecream for dessert. Our theme for the evening was The Dark Side of the Fairytales. I dressed up as a down-and-out Cinderella re-using the slit throat from 2 years before. My husband was Prince Charming with a scissor in his forehead. Our story was that we did not live happily ever after and had had a fight in the kitchen which ended up with me sticking a scissor in him while he was slitting my throat. The night went great, except my husband spent most of the night with a baby on one arm. Our daughter would as usually not sleep so she was with us for the entire evening. We were so tired that by midnight we could barely stay awake in our chairs. Our guests pitied us and put us out of our misery by leaving early. We forgot all about taking pictures. As the guests were leaving I suddenly remembered, so I took a couple of fuzzy pictures of them exiting. I got a picture of my very tired husband in costume with our daugter hanging on his arm. Before demasking I took a picture of myself in the bathroom mirror, which was covered in fake cobwebs. That picture was even more fuzzy. The next year we got our mom to babysit for Halloween. Fingers crossed she will do the same this year.