A little overboard?

Since my daughter started preschool I've finally gotten the chance to meet other parents. Before I just couldn't bring myself to ask for a phone number on the playground. That just felt too weird. Now we are entering the playdate zone. I got an email from a mommy of a child that shared a cubby at school with my daughter. She hoped she had picked up a hat by mistake. Unfortunately no but we struck up a conversation and now have a playdate scheduled for 10am. And I'm nervous. It's one thing to have the nannies meet. They don't care about whose house it is and if it's clean but this child is coming over with her stay at home mommy. And I won't be there. So I'm

relying on my nanny to be hostess and on my temperamental toddler to not knock this kid (or her mom) in the head with a thrown toy. So how do I compensate? With gifts and toys of course! Merely for distraction. Smoke and mirrors so to speak to hide the fact that we slightly resemble hoarders because of the stacks of donation boxes, old mail, rejected furniture and baby toys that no one in the house seems to be bothered by except me.

Anyhow I decorated 2 paper lunch bags and named them each with princess before their names and loaded them up with healthy snacks and a few butterfly bubble wands I had left over from the birthday party. I left instructions with the HB to tell the nanny (yeah that'll work) to set up the princess house, lay out the princess dresses, cut paper to make crowns (ha ha) and give each princess her snack bag while inside the princess house.

Update:  Got an email from the playdate Mom and the girls had an amazing time.  "At one point the girls were dressed as princesses, with shoes, riding bikes and playing guitars!  And dumb me no way to capture the very ridiculous moment."  I feel better now.