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wwyd:
this year dd's b-day falls on easter sunday and dh and I were planning on having a cake and having the grandparents and our sisters over for it in the afternoon around 4:30-5. My mil does not like the idea at all. And we can't do it the following weekend because we have plans already and during the week is just hard bc of our work schedules etc. would you just wait and have the cake 2 weeks later? I just hate doing that. What would you ladies do?
Re: wwyd:
I would have it when you want to, and if that happens to be on Easter, well that is the day.
My DSs 1st b-day was on just last week on Newport St Patty's Parade day. We had our usual day (car bomb/breakfast, went ot OBs) while my parents babysat and took DS to the parade, and came back in the afternoon for cake. It was perfect!!!
could you do cake on the saturday?
if not, i would do what works best for you & DH. i would only see it as an issue if DD was upset about it (at her age, i'm sure she will be happy to have easter candy AND cake on the same day). my birthday sometimes falls on thanksgiving, so i get not wanting to share your day. but as a little kid, i'm sure i didn't mind at all.
I have no problem with holding off and celebrating the birthday a couple weeks later. I did that with Shannon (almost a full month after her birthday last year, but I was pregnant and due right around the same time). We often do joint-birthday parties in my family, so that means that it's rarely ever on the birthday boy/girl's actual birthday.
You can always do just a little something with your DD on her birthday, and then have the family party when it's more convenient for everyone.
Mind if I ask what your MIL's issue with having the party on Easter Sunday is?
i'd do it on easter
i not for anything, just to piss off my mil, but that's just me being lame! lol
i'd hate to wait 2 weeks for the cake so i would do it on easter.
Ditto this.
I would have done it the day before but we are having a kids party for her and the week before we already have 2 b-day parties and the weekend after we have a wedding and the circus. The pretty much all of april we have something already every weekend and the beginning of may as well. She just doesn't like the idea bc she has a few people over to eat but every year they are gone by 4-4:30 bc they have other family to go visit. Just like DH and I every holiday we rotate which parents house we go to eat at and then go visit the other one afterwards for dessert, well every year/holdiay she gets upset bc we don't eat there that holiday even though were were there the year before for it. it drives me nuts and they never come by our house, last time she came over was dd;s b-day party last year! It drives me nuts.
oh i forgot that she never comes to your house!! you should absolutely have her cake on easter! because:
a - it's her actual birthday
b - that is when it works best for you & DH
c - your MIL needs to get it through her head that she doesn't get to dictate when you celebrate your daughter's birthday
she sounds like quite a peach :P
This. You're throwing the party, she's your daughter, and while you've taken into consideration the fact that your MIL doesn't like the idea, you don't see another good option for you.
just do it on easter!
my sisters birthdays always fell on or around thanksgiving so we always had a cke for them on thanksgiving... and it was easier for everyone because we were already together.
if yo uhave plans on the other days, than i think easter is a lovely hoilday to celebrate her birthday!