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Anyone NOT do a large party for LO's b day?
Urgh..... We are beginning to plan K's two year birthday party and I can't take it!!! I started working on the guest list ... And now since we live close to all of DH's family.... The guest list is over 50 people long!!!! And once I got to 50 I got depressed and stopped writing. I mean ... Idk how many of these people will actually come since its St. Patricks day.... But 50+ people? And these are all adults.... Plus since this is the first party we are throwing since we've moved into our house... DH wants to invite all his friends too (honestly I doubt his single guy friends are going to want to come to a two year olds party on st patricks day). Plus then in 5 months we will be planning another big party for LO #2's christening. I'm thinking of canning the whole thing and just immediate family only.... My only fear is that MIL will still plan a party for k's birthday for extended family and I refuse to have two birthday parties for her!!! So am I a bad mommy if I do a smaller party for k?
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Re: Anyone NOT do a large party for LO's b day?
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We did the big birthday party with all the family for her 1st birthday. I had about 50pple at my house.
For her 2nd birthday though...we are just doing kiddie friends. We only invited about 12 kids and we are having it at an indoor play place. I'll have a cake here for her the following night at my house for our immediate family but that's it! This is how the rest of her birthday's will be too.
We had immediate family only for K's christening (15-20 people), then two small parties for her first birhday. The one with my side was about 10 people and then we had one up in MA with DH's family that was about 20 people. But for the one in MA we were also celebrating Christmas so we wouldnt have necessarily invited everyone who ended up being there.
I plan on keeping it small and doing the same type of thing for future kids. It would be nice to have a big party but we dont have any space to have it at home and going out somewhere is too expensive and impractical for a kid's birthday IMO.
Beyond a 1st birthday I wouldnt really expect to be invited to a kids party unless it were my niece or nephew or a friend of my child.
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We did a big 1st Birthday (75 or 80 invited...about 50 came) because I wanted it even though everyone told me not too. I figured too bad, she will never get another big party like that for a long time!
Her 2nd birthday I have not started to plan but a ton of people will not be invited...I will keep to immediate family and some of our closest friends.