Abbey and Blanket go to a wedding

This was a first, The Parents were sitting on the couch laughing so hard they could hardly sit up. They had all just gotten back from a wedding, which was to, say the least, hardly a roaring success.
"Oh my god, the look on her face when she saw the Blanket there, I don't think I'll ever forget it." Mommy said through her laughing and crying, all at the same time.
"Well, I don't think we have to worry about hearing from them anytime soon." Daddy said, laughing loudly but getting up from the couch.
"Come on, trouble maker." Abbey said, taking Blanket and heading up to her room.

The day had started out well enough. The whole family had to go to the wedding of a family member, so neither of The Parents had to go to work. Abbey and Maddy had new pretty dresses to wear and they were going to get to scatter flower petals as they walked to their seats. It was going to be cool. Blanket was upset that he didn't get his own bag of flower petals, but he had finally stopped scheming, and had accepted his role as Abbey's chair saver. Everyone got dressed without incident and they arrived at the wedding with plenty of time to spare. Then it was time for pictures.
"Just let me be in one picture, look, I match the bridesmaid dresses. They are purple and I have purple in me. No one will notice, I never get to be in the fancy pictures. This sucks."
"I'm sorry, I promise, you'll be in lots of pictures at the reception, but you just can't be in these pictures." Abbey set Blanket down on the bench near the flowering tree where they were taking photos. Mommy was standing right there, next to him. For some reason, Daddy and Maddy and Abbey were in several pictures, but not Mommy. Abbey couldn't figure out why, she was looking at Mommy who was very pretty and had the fanciest shoes on and her hair was down and long and then she heard a strange sound coming from the photographer.
"What is that, that thing?" His voice sounded strange, and he was turning a funny color of red.
Abbey eyes followed to where his finger was pointing and to where his assistant was scurrying. Wrapped around the base of the flowering tree was Blanket. Abbey hurried over to scoop Blanket up before the assistant got there, because she had pulled out a pair of scissors and had a murderous look in her eyes.
"I'm so sorry, I thought I left Blanket on the bench, over there, I'll put him back." Abbey hurried Blanket over to the bench and dropped him there.
"Seriously, you are going to get shredded, these people are not like us, they take this stuff seriously, they have no sense of humor and don't understand childhood. I can't repair you if that assistant gets to you with those scissors. Stay here."
Abbey left Blanket who was muttering about artistic staging and interpretation.
They finished the pictures without incident and made it all the way through the ceremony although Blanket did stick himself out into the aisle and tried to catch the flower petals Abbey threw and nearly tripped her as she passed by. The Getting Married Family Member and the photographer didn't notice, but Abbey swore she saw the assistant reach for the scissors from the sheath on her purse strap.
The reception began, and after the wedding started, Daddy and Maddy and Abbey found their seats at the table with Mommy who was all by herself because she wasn't allowed to walk in with the rest of the family. They were eating dinner when Abbey noticed that Blanket wasn't on the back of her chair where she left him. She quickly scanned the room and noticed several horrified looks near the buffet table. Blanket was lurking near the seafood alfredo area. Abbey scurried over and snatched him up.
"You can't have the good stuff. We were given fruit and chicken fingers and fries. Now play with this personal sized ketchup bottle, I'll share all of this with you, but you have to stay here. I don't think we're going to be appreciated for our shenanigans, and we don't need to make a spectacle of ourselves."
"Sorry, I just wanted some, the seafood smells so good, and I am really hungry, you didn't save any cheeseburger for me earlier. Do you think anyone would notice if I went to the cookie table and got some of those chocolate covered ones, I'm so hungry. That cake looks divine. When are they going to let us have that?"
Abbey turned in her seat to face Blanket.
"Look at my face, do not go to that cake table at all, that would be the end of us both. If they didn't appreciate you encroaching on pictures, you making an appearance at the cake table would be like a 11.7 earthquake. Stay here, and I'll get cookies."
Abbey got up from her seat and went to get a bag of cookies for them to share. While she was picking out the best and gooiest, she heard a crash from the front of the room. Several people were on the floor in the dance area. They didn't look happy to be there. She went back to scooping cookies. When she got back to the table, Blanket was laying on the table looking sheepish.
"I just wanted to try my new dance moves, that is all" Blanket said in his whiny voice.
"O M G. What did you do?" Abbey whispered, in a slight panic.
"Well, I was doing to cha cha slide, but the music wasn't right, and I couldn't remember if I was supposed to go right or left, so I guessed right and the Getting Married Family Member's friend didn't see me and sort of tripped over me, fell down and knocked down her dancing partner. In my defense if they hadn't been so close together, I wouldn't have managed to take them both down."
Abbey put her head down on the table. Man was she gonna get it. She looked up and saw Mommy headed over with a big smile on her face.
"Abbey, are you gonna get out there and dance, they're playing Miley Cyrus. Get out there and have some fun."
Abbey took Mommy's hand and headed to the dance floor again. She was dancing with The Parents and Maddy and having a wonderful time when she noticed the photographer hovering and taking photos. He was smiling and snapping away and then his face darkened and he stomped off. Abbey looked around for whatever had offended him and saw Blanket, hovering at the edge of their family dance group. Again, now she'd probably be deleted from all the photos.
Before too long, it was time to cut the cake and there were more pictures and Blanket managed to stay out of sight with the bag of cookies under the table. Abbey had to to across the hall to the restroom and when she came back to check on Blanket, she couldn't find him, and then she heard yelling from the cake table. She closed her eyes and wished with all her might that she was wrong.
Nope.
"...and now all this cake is ruined, no one can eat it and everything is ruined by that stupid baby blanket." was the snippet of yelling she picked up from the grown-ups at the cake table.
Daddy who was smiling, carried Blanket over to Abigail. "I love you honey, and I love that Blanket, do you think you could keep a very close eye on him for the rest of the night?"
"Daddy, I promise."

Daddy walked away still smiling.
Abbey turned to Blanket. "What in the world were you thinking?"
"Well, I couldn't choose between vanilla and chocolate and then I couldn't pick just one piece, and people kept coming taking the pieces I wanted just before I could pick one up, so I figured if I laid on top of all the pieces, then no one would take any, and I could take my time picking."

"Well, normally, I would threaten you here, but since The Parents don't seem upset, lets go dance."

Comments

  1. HILARIOUS! Definitely the best blanket story yet! Oh, the adventures of blanket... :)

    Kerri

    PS: I am picturing blanket laying across all the pieces of cake and I am dying from laughter!

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  2. Definitely the best one yet :)

    You are so clever and the blanket is so onry!

    Erica

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