Planning Abby's birthday party
About a week ago, Abby, who is about to turn five, mentioned she would like to have a birthday party with some friends from school. I went and bought some invitations. Abby decided whom she wanted to invite. She immediately came up with names with not a whole lot of prodding from me. Normally I would want her to invite all the girls in her class so no one would feel left out. However, Abby is in both her school's morning and afternoon preschool programs, so the number of girls that could potentially be coming would be unworkable given the size of our house. (My apologies, I really didn't want to leave anyone out). We ended up inviting nine, thinking that some would already have things going on and not be able to make it, having hosted a few BeautiControl spa parties and expecting a no-show rate of about 50%.

I was wrong, however, but happily wrong.

It turns out that when Jim and I talked with some of the moms who called to RSVP or we talked with in person at a school dinner, they mentioned that this was the first birthday party that their daughter had been invited to, so this was a huge event in their daughter's life. Some mentioned that their daughters had watched older siblings going off to birthday parties and now it was going to be their turn. So I have seven "yeses" and one "maybe" at this point. I've enlisted my Mom to help. We'll be doing a "frost and decorate your own cupcake" and some games and activities, though I'm not sure exactly what yet. Still scouring the Internet for those. Becca will be in the party too, so there could be up to 10 kids in our dining room. I'll have goody bags put together. It'll be fun.
- posted by Kristen @ 1/26/2006 09:55:00 PM