Getting ready for Passover

At this particular Fiori household we are getting ready for Passover (the first night is Monday night). Traditionally we would have a large seder with all of my family, but with our two monkeys (I mean beautiful boys) we have chosen to skip the first seder and opt for a different one this year. We are going over to a friends house for the second Seder on Tuesday. She has two boys the same ages as ours. We compare notes constantly, it seems we have twins separated at birth. Should make for a fun night indeed. So I went out this morning on a search for our Matzoh. I forgot to buy it last week when it was on sale at Safeway so I was prepared to cough it up today and pay full price. I went to Bashas and it was actually $7.88 for the 5 lb. box. Yippee. so excited. I'm splitting it with my mom and dad since for the last couple of years we haven't finished all 5 lbs anyways. Now back to the fun part of the trip, my children were absolute nightmares in the grocery store. Jared is jumping around like a bunny (yes, he knows all about Easter, we celebrate Easter with Nick's family) and then running away from me and Nathan is having a complete meltdown. I should have just left the store then, but I really wanted the Matzoh. I picked up some Manischewitz Blackberry to bring along to Jodi's house. Would it be bad of me to crack it open before the Seder? 11% alcohol by volume sure sounds great about now. Actually I need to crack it open anyways. I'm going to use some to make the Charoset. I'm also in charge of bringing the dessert, I'm probably going to do a Chocolate brownie and maybe an Apple Square thing. I found the recipes here.