So we started planning Zach’s and Preston’s birthday parties today. Since their birthdays are 4 days apart we always have Zach’s on the Saturday closest to his birthday, and Preston’s the Saturday after. So it’s fun and exciting birthday mania when we sit down to try to plan the details of both parties. Once we’d settled on themes (Narnia and Magic Tree House), made invitations, and started to talk about games, we sat down to write the guest lists. Here’s where our dilemma begins…. Preston’s list was simple enough, but then it was time for Zach’s list. We started discussing who to invite and pretty soon Zach was in tears! Zach tends to get pretty closed about how he’s feeling, so it took a little prodding to figure out what was wrong. But when I finally dragged it out of him, I found out he was having major stress about who to invite and who not to invite from his school class. He named his better friends in the class, but then felt so bad about not inviting the rest of the kids. He kept saying things like, “But if I invite some people and then their friends find out, and they know they aren’t invited they’ll feel bad! And I don’t want to make anyone feel bad! I don’t want anyone to feel left out or think I don’t like them.” Thus our dilemma. It makes me happy that Zach cares about other people’s feelings so much. But at the same time, do I really want that many kids in my little house?? But he was in so much stress and didn’t know what to do! So finally, (and I think I’m going to regret this), I told him he can go ahead and invite them all. Besides, I kept telling myself, maybe 1/3 of them will show up, right? **sigh** I need a big party room, or summer birthdays, or something! It should be fun! Oh, and here are their invitations:
11:53 pm on February 8th, 2010
I’ve been there so many times! We invited Matt’s entire class in Kindergarten. And Ty’s in 1st and 2nd grade. It’s so hard for them to figure it all out. We’d rather have the nutty parties and sweet boys than the alternative!