How true, how true! "Sometimes it's not about you, you know!"

It can get, at times, to be just too much. The birthday parties these days can get way out of hand. Not meaning to sound like an ogre but who are we really doing the parties for? I love throwing parties - small ones and big ones alike. All the same, I can see such competition between the mothers in regards to the parties of who has the most original idea, nicest invitations, biggest bounce house, etc. . . I want my boys to have the time of their lives on their special day - they deserve it, they're very precious but their birthday celebration this past year has made me reevaluate what it's all about. So next year, it might still be a big celebration but with the reevaluation in mind,it will be for the right reasons!

I don't know Tamara, maybe there is something about the 6 year mark that makes us take a second look at what it's all about. Don't you love how these little ones keep us on our toes!

Those are the kinds of parties we usually have at our house, too, Tamar. N's birthday party this year (and last, now that I think about it) was a "ball" party. As in, I threw every single kind of ball we had out in the backyard, and let the kids out there to play with them. ;-) We did have a bounce house at Em's 6th birthday party at her request, but that was it in terms of "special" stuff there.

I have to say that I much prefer parties that are more about enjoying the people around you than about making kids sit still for a show or a presentation of some sort. Nothing like the sound of laughter to let you know you have a hit of a party on your hands...

TC

Yeah, I definitely prefer the kind of party we had this year. But will there be a time when Damian's friends expect the big show and judge him badly for not providing it? I don't think he'll ever care about such things, honestly, but other kids might.