I've got five kids, aged 9 to 17. So I've thrown a lot kids birthday parties over the years!
For the very first birtday party I threw my eldest daughter, I plowed my way through two Harry Potters, to get the Harry Potter theme júst right! We changed our car into the Hogwarts Express, and put up a big sign at our front door declaring it Platform 9¾. And I didn't even particularly like Harry Potter. During the years I've thrown Dinosaur Parties with vulcanoes vomiting bright red lava thanks to a lot of baking soda, Spy Parties where the birthday guests got their very own homemade passports and I can't begin to count the number of scavenger hunts I set up.
'No easy birthday parties for me!' I stubbornly declared. 'I won't give in to this stupid commercial trend of going complete over the top.'
But as the years went by my principles got a bit frayed around the edges, and this year I found myself planning a birthday party for my 9 year old sun in one of those indoor playgrounds. I'm not happy about it, but there you go. I suppose I just got tired…
But when I go to bed at night I toss and turn, and wonder: 'Am I selling out, of just surrendering to the greater bad?'
Children's birthday parties: am I selling out?
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Nicole Orriëns
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Nicole Orriëns
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Hi there, I'm Nicole Orriëns. I started my first blog in 2001 and now I'm a very happy fulltime blogger.
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I don't think that's selling out at all! Lots of kids would love the indoor playground, AND you don't have to clean it up!
ReplyDeleteI used to plan big, elaborate parties at home for the kids. Last year, my 8-year-old begged for a party at Lazer Kraze. I gave in. At the end of it, my husband and I looked at each other in amazement. No clean up? That's it? Home to collapse on the couch? They had me at "we'll need a deposit."
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