Damnit!
myjaxon March 3rd, 2009
How frickin’ hard is it to plan a 2 year olds birthday party?!
It was suppose to be this past weekend, but since everyone here was sick, we postponed it until the 14th. And I was thinking of moving it to earlier in the day (from 3p to 11:30a) since that would work with everyones previous engagements.
I had all the plans set in my head. My sister was going to come up on Friday to help with the prep and we were going to take Ian swimming after Jesse got out of work. Then my sister reminded me that I had a PC show that night. In Marshall. Where mom was going to babysit Ian.
Shit, I forgot about THOSE plans. Ian and I were going to hit the in-laws during the day on that Friday since they couldn’t make his party. Mom was going to watch Ian for the show and keep him over night. I was going to come back home, sleep in my own bed, and prep for the party the next day. Mom would bring him home in time for the party.
There is no way we could have done the party earlier on Saturday if I was going to be gone pretty much the entire day before. So the party gets moved back to the original time slot. Then that doesn’t help the issues of my sister having to drive the 4 hours home after the party and my mother having to be BACK in Marshall by 6pm. Plus the in-law should wouldn’t be able to make it. Damnit.
So I started thinking about moving it to this Sunday, and that brought up a bunch of the same issues. Seriously, why is it this hard to have a party for a 2 year old? All I wanted to do was celebrate his birthday with family and make up for the lousy birthDAY he actually had (with all of us being sick) and for some reason, fate isn’t letting me do it.
Basically, this is kind of a good thing for Ian. Instead of having the one party, he’s getting three now. One with each grandparent. Something I have been trying to avoid, but what do you do? We’re going to get together with the in-laws for Easter and he’ll get presents then. We were already celebrating March birthdays at my moms in a couple of weeks, so we can include his then. The only odd ball out was my father, but he’s going to come up this weekend, along with my sister (who is going to at a hotel with a pool) and we’ll celebrate by the pool.
This plan actually works out better for us since we won’t have to get up at the butt crack of dawn on the 21st to be in BC by 8am during a weekend where I have A LOT going on and I won’t have to provide all the food for any of the celebrations. Doing it this way makes it simplier and cheaper, but it wasn’t what I wanted. I’m annoyed on many levels right now. I wanted to give Ian a birthday party. Oh well, I’ll throw in a half-birthday party in August. He can invite friends over for that one.
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