So I planned Monkey's birthday party for this Saturday because his actually birthday is Easter which we will spend with family. Once again I tried to plan his birthday party at the park which is always a toss up with a March birthday. I have plenty of experience with birthday's at this time of year as mine is only 3 days after Monkey's and the weather here in Colorado can change quickly!
So we have had to move his party to inside our house which means that I have to find things for the kiddos to do instead of spending time burning energy on the playground.
Well as I have been getting everything together for his new party everyone started canceling on me. We were down to one child and 2 babies coming as of Wednesday and then it dropped again to only the one family with the child and baby. I feel horrible for Monkey. I completely understand everyone has things going on and that came up so I'm not upset I'm just feeling like a failure because his 4th birthday is looking pretty grim. I'm worried about him not having anyone because the one family coming is having plenty of struggles of their own at the moment that I would completely understand if they can't make it. So that would leave a party with just his grandparents and us. I'm sure we could make it fun but we will be having his family party on Easter since we will all be together anyway.
So I sucked it up and called a friend. She has 3 boys that Monkey loves to play with but he didn't chose them off his list of friends to invite. So once I was sure that we weren't having people come to his party I made the call that went kind of like this.
Me: "So I hope you don't take this the wrong way but almost everyone has cancelled for Monkey's party on Saturday and I feel horrible for Monkey. Would you mind bringing your boys over for the party? I let Monkey choose who to invite and I told him that with the new baby that your boys probably couldn't come. But you can just drop them off and head back home and get some extra sleep too. I know how important that is with a new baby."
My Friend: "Of course. My boys would love to come. I completely understand. And your not a failure it's everyone else that is canceling that's the issue not you."
Isn't that great! No judgment for the late late invite and a willingness to bring her boys so Monkey can have a fun friend filled birthday!
So now of course I have the house to clean and all the supplies to buy for the party. I'll be sharing how we threw a train themed birthday party on a budget and made it fun for all the kids so come back next week for some great ideas and to see if I really failed as a mom for this years party or if it turned out great!
So we have had to move his party to inside our house which means that I have to find things for the kiddos to do instead of spending time burning energy on the playground.
Well as I have been getting everything together for his new party everyone started canceling on me. We were down to one child and 2 babies coming as of Wednesday and then it dropped again to only the one family with the child and baby. I feel horrible for Monkey. I completely understand everyone has things going on and that came up so I'm not upset I'm just feeling like a failure because his 4th birthday is looking pretty grim. I'm worried about him not having anyone because the one family coming is having plenty of struggles of their own at the moment that I would completely understand if they can't make it. So that would leave a party with just his grandparents and us. I'm sure we could make it fun but we will be having his family party on Easter since we will all be together anyway.
So I sucked it up and called a friend. She has 3 boys that Monkey loves to play with but he didn't chose them off his list of friends to invite. So once I was sure that we weren't having people come to his party I made the call that went kind of like this.
Me: "So I hope you don't take this the wrong way but almost everyone has cancelled for Monkey's party on Saturday and I feel horrible for Monkey. Would you mind bringing your boys over for the party? I let Monkey choose who to invite and I told him that with the new baby that your boys probably couldn't come. But you can just drop them off and head back home and get some extra sleep too. I know how important that is with a new baby."
My Friend: "Of course. My boys would love to come. I completely understand. And your not a failure it's everyone else that is canceling that's the issue not you."
Isn't that great! No judgment for the late late invite and a willingness to bring her boys so Monkey can have a fun friend filled birthday!
So now of course I have the house to clean and all the supplies to buy for the party. I'll be sharing how we threw a train themed birthday party on a budget and made it fun for all the kids so come back next week for some great ideas and to see if I really failed as a mom for this years party or if it turned out great!
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