Comments on: Birthday Party Dilemma

By: Christy

Christy — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:03:00 +0000

Testing 2

By: Christy

Christy — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:02:47 +0000

Just a test

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A Sugary Sweet Fourth Birthday — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:09:07 +0000

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By: Christy

Christy — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:29:56 +0000

Hah. I totally forgot about this post when I sent you over here. Good thing I didn’t say anything really bad about you. =}

By: stickykisses

stickykisses — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:08:53 +0000

Okay, being one of said sisters (though not the extreme culprit), I feel I need to redeem myself…
We had been doing fairly large parties, though mostly back-yard bashes, but that all changed 2 years ago. I was discussing with my then-turning-7 daughter what kind of party she’d like that year…bowling, pottery, freakish cartoon place…when I suggested the possibility of just having a few friends over for cake & games. She looked at me like I had two heads and said “But, Mom, that’s not a party!” It was at that moment that I decided that from then on, that’s exactly what my kids would be getting…what I always had growing up.
And the funny thing is…they love it!
We still do “goody bags”, but those have been redeemed also. No more crappy plastic trinkets that parents dread and throw away as soon as the kids forget about them (like the next day). We go practical. For our Summer/Ice Cream theme party one year, we gave a coupon for a free cone at the local ice cream place tied to a pair of dollar-store flip-flops. For our fall-born daughter’s party last year we gave small pumpkins from a local farm.
What really helped, though, was that the girls are now old enough to have a few friends over without having to host all the parents as well. That made a HUGE difference. Now that we have a new Little Brother, I haven’t figured out yet how to handle his birthdays…he may wait until he’s 6 to get one. Let him gripe to his therapist later.