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Mom? What's a difficult child?
K has begged for a Birthday party for 2 years now, her Grandma has put it into her head that she "needs" a big party for all celebrations. I have tried to keep them low key. Part of the problem besides her being a difficult child and going Manic in almost any excitable situation, is the fact that her Birthday is July 2nd... so any get together is usually not an option due to every being gone or busy for the 4th.
So I planned this party as a Graduation from Kindergarten and an early Birthday, the weekend after they got done with school. We passed out the invites 2 weeks ago, I put our phone number and my e-mail. I think 17 invites.
I didn't realize it was also Father's Day...
NOT ONE RSVP!!!
I know she has friends... 4 of the kids told us they had to visit their Dad's for the weekend. 2 of the kids that we have had playdates with talked to us before school and actually told us they would come.
2 little boys threw the invites on the floor and told her they would not come...
So she was crying the week before, convinced no-one was coming. :sad-
very:
We also invited a couple of outside friends.
On the last day of school husband asked 2 of the kids if they were coming, both parents were shocked, they said they did not get the invites. One was going to be out of town and the other was the little boy who threw the invite, his Mom made him come!!! He had just been copying the other boy!!! ( He ended up having a great time)
So no one RSVP'd... but 3 kids actually showed up from school!!!
And you know what, this was perfect! We said the whole family could come, and with our other couple of friends it ended up being 12 kids total. From ages 2-8.
I made a ton of food... cupcakes with 2 kinds of frosting, coffee cake, tons of dips, salsa guacamole... tons of food.
We gave K an Anti-Anxiety before hand.
She was still the loudest and most hyper. But she had SO much fun... the party was supposed to go from 1-3 but every one stayed until 5!!! Which was fine.
K was a wreck today, we had to give her a PRN, 3 rages and incredibly violent. But she always is when she does something big the day before. It is the price we all pay...
N had fun as well.
I am so happy for K. Even though I am appalled at people's bad manner's for at least not e-mailing or calling! Even if only half of the kids brought them home!!! I mean don't these parents check the kids back packs???
I understand not being able to come. Her Birthday is just one of these days, it is always going to be hard.
I am SO proud of her, she didn't start freaking out until the end...
So I planned this party as a Graduation from Kindergarten and an early Birthday, the weekend after they got done with school. We passed out the invites 2 weeks ago, I put our phone number and my e-mail. I think 17 invites.
I didn't realize it was also Father's Day...
NOT ONE RSVP!!!
I know she has friends... 4 of the kids told us they had to visit their Dad's for the weekend. 2 of the kids that we have had playdates with talked to us before school and actually told us they would come.
2 little boys threw the invites on the floor and told her they would not come...
So she was crying the week before, convinced no-one was coming. :sad-
very:
We also invited a couple of outside friends.
On the last day of school husband asked 2 of the kids if they were coming, both parents were shocked, they said they did not get the invites. One was going to be out of town and the other was the little boy who threw the invite, his Mom made him come!!! He had just been copying the other boy!!! ( He ended up having a great time)
So no one RSVP'd... but 3 kids actually showed up from school!!!
And you know what, this was perfect! We said the whole family could come, and with our other couple of friends it ended up being 12 kids total. From ages 2-8.
I made a ton of food... cupcakes with 2 kinds of frosting, coffee cake, tons of dips, salsa guacamole... tons of food.
We gave K an Anti-Anxiety before hand.
She was still the loudest and most hyper. But she had SO much fun... the party was supposed to go from 1-3 but every one stayed until 5!!! Which was fine.
K was a wreck today, we had to give her a PRN, 3 rages and incredibly violent. But she always is when she does something big the day before. It is the price we all pay...
N had fun as well.
I am so happy for K. Even though I am appalled at people's bad manner's for at least not e-mailing or calling! Even if only half of the kids brought them home!!! I mean don't these parents check the kids back packs???
I understand not being able to come. Her Birthday is just one of these days, it is always going to be hard.
I am SO proud of her, she didn't start freaking out until the end...