4 birthdays in 1 month: Can we get away with one big bash"
by Kelly Wilbanks posted in Parenting
As May graces us with flowers and showers, in our family it brings party season. We have four birthdays, Mother's Day, Father's Day, and my husband's and my anniversary all within a two-month period.
It's the end of the school year and honestly, folks are ready to go on vacation. Most are partied out from graduation celebrations and end-of-the-school-year celebrations and other obligations. So I decided that it would be easier for everyone involved to plan one big party.
We have all the same friends, except for a few picked up by my 5-year-old at school this year. We could combine our efforts and do some really fun stuff as opposed to spreading ourselves thin and dealing with all the mom guilt of not making things fair. This guilt usually causes me to spend more money than I should. So, how to have a birthday for a 40-something-year-old man, a 37-year-old woman, a 6-year-old girl, and a 3-year-old girl" I've been puzzling over this one. I've decided to bring on the waterworks. Not tears (hopefully). No, I'm going to invest in a slip-n-slide, a bunch of water balloons, and I'm hoping to find someone to run some games.
The girls are into different things. Vivi, my oldest, wants a Pink-a-licious theme with everything as pink as can be. Evie wants an Elsa party so I'm going to do my best to honor their wishes. I'm pretty sure my husband just wants to lie in a hammock with great smelling BBQ wafting through the air. I want to see a...
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