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I live in a cul-de-sac, which I love. There are three of us families on this cul-de-sac with little kids, and all of them are boys. Even better. We play together, walk together, referee together.
And, apparently, party together. Each of the other families have one boy each. One is the same age as my youngest, and the other is almost exactly a year younger. All three of their birthdays fall within the same week. And because we are all such astute planners, we have all scheduled their birthday parties on the same day.
Yes. *mayhem ensues*
We cannot combine them into one big party, mainly because our families will also be invited to said parties, and no one really wants to sit by and watch their nephew's little neighbor friend open presents and smear cake on their face.
One party is at 11:30 am, one is at 2:00 pm, and ours was supposed to be at 3:00 pm. Since I am the senior mom here, I am thusly responsible for being the flexible one. Luckily, because I am not fastidious by nature about invitations or times or dates, it is not difficult for me to change our plans. I don't think I have ever actually sent out invitations of any kind for any of my kids' birthdays anyway; I just call everyone who's invited and tell them when and where to show up. Since I am famously late everywhere I go because of the li'l darlin's, I always tell everyone to show up half an hour later than I actually plan on starting the party. That way, the guest of honor will be sure to make it there himself.
Furthermore, my second dilemma is that we have an average-sized house and rather a lot of family. We sometimes have trouble fitting all the family members into our open living room/dining room/kitchen floor plan. Adding two more families is quite likely to push the walls apart at the seams. Well, actually, three, since my other friend who has twin 2-year-old sons plus two other boys will also likely be in attendance.
So I have made a radical new decision. We will have two parties, one family-friendly, the other (ahem) friend-friendly. The only extra thing this requires on my part will be adding some cupcakes to the mix, which I routinely do anyway for the older two when they have parties at school.
Another consideration: this allows me double the opportunities to show off my brand-spankin' new couch, which is supposed to be delivered in two days. After having ordered and paid for it in full over a month ago. Apparently it is a rather popular model and we were not the early bird. The catch-22 of this is that it also allows double the opportunities to accumulate it's very first stains before soldier gets home this summer for R&R to see it.
Five little boys fighting over each other's presents at three different parties on the same weekend? I can't wait.
