The best kid birthday party ever

March 27, 2007

Yesterday my son went to the best kid birthday party ever.

The schedule:

10:00 am - meet at bowling alley
10:05 am - bowl
11:00 am - open presents
11:05 am - pass out goodie bags
11:10 am - party’s over

Advantages:

1. As you can imagine, bowling on a Monday at 10 in the morning…they practically had the whole place to themselves.

2. No cake, no mess, no clean up, no sugar-injected 5-year-olds running wild and no 3, 4 or 5-hour (or more) block of time in which everyone gets cranky and stressed out.

3. Very little prep time for the birthday mom.

4. And really, a little over an hour is quite sufficient for a group of 5-year-olds, don’t you think?

(And for any of you worried that the poor kid didn’t get his cake and eat it too, have no fear. They had a family party earlier in the month with, I assume, all the “appropriate” birthday booty.)

Let’s admit it, don’t we often throw huge parties for our kids in order to impress other parents or at least, to keep up with them? OK, maybe none of you do, but I’m guilty. Kids just want to play. They don’t care about checking everything off the activity list nor if everything matches and looks just so.

Yesterday’s party was good for me. I’ve decided to just say no to those big birthday parties that mostly just make me want to scratch my eyeballs out.

Category: Parenting

Comments

3 Responses to “The best kid birthday party ever”

  1. joannmski
    March 27th, 2007 @ 5:21 pm

    Hi Amy! So glad you are writing again. It was sad to see a great blog go limp. Take good care!

  2. Leah, The Mom
    March 28th, 2007 @ 7:22 am

    Welcome back, Amy. Your ministry continues!

  3. Caroline
    March 29th, 2007 @ 11:50 pm

    I love bowling parties. My teen-ager had a bowling party for like 3 years in a row. Our university bowling alley on Friday nights is $6/lane for 2 hours. (No matter how many bowlers!) Even if you add cake and soda, it’s still a sweet deal. Glad to see you’re back - I always enjoyed your blog as I’m also not your typical pastor’s wife. You sort of inspired me to start my own blog, new this month!

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