Kristy's big day is actually her mom's big day, as she is marrying her love Watson Brewer. But of course, in true BSC style, there are some trials and tribulations that come along with this blessed union of souls.
The wedding is originally planned for September, with each of the kids being invited to be in the wedding. However, then Kristy's mom (who has an "important job with an important company") (whatever the hell that means), is told she has to go overseas for work during the weeks before, after and during the wedding. Also, they have a buyer for their house who wants it, like, yesterday. So everything gets moved up and they are getting married and moving in two weeks.
To pull this off, aunts, uncles and friends are coming to town to help, and they bring all their disgusting kids with them. So what are all these kids going to be doing when the adults are busy preparing for the biggest second marriage wedding of the century? Baby-Sitters Club to the rescue! They set Kristy's house up almost like a day care, and they watch the 14 kids all day for 5 solid days.
Everything goes fine, and at the end of the book Kristy's mom marries Watson and they all live happily ever after. Kristy makes them a family tree thing as a gift to show the two families coming together as one. (I often tried to duplicate this as a child to illustrate my stepfamily.)
Takeaways
First off, this book took place during the last few days of school and during the first two weeks of summer vacation. The girls just got done with 7th grade.
There are a couple of things that just don't make sense to me:
1. Why do Watson and Elizabeth HAVE to be married before they can move in together? Why don't they just sell the house, move in together, and postpone the wedding to like October? You both have been married before and you have children - the jig is up. Neither of you are so innocent that you can't engage into some sin-living.
2. Or, if they are, like, really against living in sin, why not just justice of the peace it, to make it legal, and then have a bigger wedding later in the fall?
3. Basically I don't understand at all why this wedding had to be pushed into a two week period, especially when it was "on the bigger side". Are you honestly telling me everyone they wanted was just completely free, not only on a weekend that is only two weeks away, but also for the entire WEEK leading up to it (for all of those aunts, uncles and friends who miraculously just took an entire week off work at the last minute to come set up for a wedding).
As a kid, I would always skip chapter two of these books, which was when whoever the narrator was would explain each of the girls and how the club works. However, I will suffer through each and every Chapter 2 for the sake of this blog. In this one, when Kristy was explaining Stacey, she was talking about how much Stacey likes shopping, and she must get that from her mother, who "has time for that kind of thing". What a passive aggressive dig at stay-at-home-moms Kristy.
Their last day of school is JUNE 19th. What the hell - why does any school last until JUNE 19th?! I thought Glenwood keeping us in school until like June 5th was pure torture and a form of child abuse.
When the shit hits the fan and all hell breaks lose on this wedding, Elizabeth says that, without any prior notice, Karen and Andrew's mom and step-dad are going to Europe and the kids will have to stay with Watson. Who the hell plans an overseas trip that quickly? Or did they know they were going and just didn't tell Watson...hmmm...maybe that divorce wasn't as amicable as Ann M. Martin made it sound.
This was always one of my favorite BSC books, because I loved the way the girls organized the kids. They split them into groups and gave each group a different shape and color, like the blue birds and the pink hearts. Each kid got a name tag with their shape/color, and their group babysitter wore the same shape/color. I thought that was so cool when I was a kid, although now as an adult I would never be okay with kids running around with nametags on (hello, kidnappers, just call the kids out by name and then throw them into your van).
Best character
Stacey wins this one, because she admits Mary Poppins is her favorite movie, even though she is "so sophisticated, being from New York and having permed hair and all".
Worst character
One of the kids, Emma, messes up the clothing bags on the last day of the week. Each of the kids had brought along a bag with a complete, nice outfit for them to be dressed in for the rehearsal dinner. But that little bitch Emma snuck into the room and swapped a piece from each bag into another bag. Not cool, Emma. Why did she think that was funny?
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