Bringing Party Favors to Hell

I feel like Robert Irvine right now (er... well, apart from the whole faking his resume thing...). Tonight is my brother and SIL's anniversary and we decided to have a family dinner for/with them. My mom wants to have it at her house (which I approve of because my house is a pit and not likely to improve any time soon given my housemate's inability to ever throw away a box that anything she got off the Internet came in) coupled with my own packrattiness and the kidunit's indifferent cleaning ability. However, though my mom is hosting, she didn't want to cook so I volunteered to do so.  And of course being an idiot I decided that instead of making something I can fix at home and transport like, oh, baked chicken, or a pot roast or meatloaf, I was going to make a double-batch of Pad Kee Mow (Drunken Noodles) since at the last family get together I found out they'd never had that.

This, I now realize, is kinda dumb for two reasons.  1) what if they don't LIKE it?  Not a great anniversary dinner.  2) as I was getting my mise en place together, cutting up chicken and vegetables, assembling the sauce ingredients, I realized there's really no way I can make it at home and take it over to Mom's and have it be anywhere near as good as it should be. I really need to make it there.  So either I have to pack up my own pans, etc. and truck them over there, or just hope I can deal with whatever kitchenware she has on hand.  She doesn't cook much these days so I'm not entirely sure what I'll find.  But taking my own seems... weird. 

::headdesk::

Tell me why I thought this was a good idea?