The Holiday Parade - With Mannequins

Preparing for the holidays is challenging. Deciding what gifts to buy, dozens of shopping errands, holiday decorations, the jobs are endless. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or kwanza, everyone can agree that the holidays are a trying time. Making sure everything is done by the deadline is the hard work, but once again we can all agree that the enjoyment we get when the holidays finally arrive is worth every effort.

But this all is what everyone has to go through, but when you have a parade on your hands the challenges become exponentially ore complex and challenging, not to mention time consuming. I had to help my son and his classmate’s build a float for a school holiday parade, which has since become my definition of hard work. The class made all of the plans and figured out what they wanted to do, but being a good mom that meant that I had a lot more errands to do. My son was in charge of logistics and graciously offered my services to run around town and pick up all of the things they needed to make their float a success.

There concept was simple, they would have all the kids in the class on the actual float and they would be interacting with the pros and each other. They worked so hard (and so did I) to make sure everything went according to plan. But then at the last minute, as is always the case, disaster struck. The school told the class that they could not have actual people on the float! This meat that the entire float concept was shot and there was nothing that anyone could do, that is until doctor mom came and solved the problem.

I went online to a great store that rented and sold mannequins and o ordered twenty of them for one day overnight rentals. My son was so excited! It turned the whole thing around. The mannequins looked so good up there on the float and they were adjustable so we the kids positioned them in the exact same way that they would have positioned themselves. The parade was a major success and thanks to my last minute mannequin brainstorm, the float was too.