I reserve a bounce house, food, and cake- pick it all up or have it delivered, and pay for it. Someone cleans my house so the stress is pretty low other than day of getting things ready. I've hosted a lot of things though so I've got a handle of how to do it easy and cheap. I don't Pinterest. I just make it as fun as I can think of.
chrispy1122 I should have asked you yesterday, but just thought about it today- what did you guys decide for child care? I can't remember
My MIL is going to do it. I'm actually pretty excited and she is excited too (I think). She was planning on coming to our house in the mornings, which is perfect, but we told her to feel free to take the kids out or to her house and we can come get them from wherever after work. I think this will work out great and hopefully the kids and she love it.
I'm going to see after everyone settles into the new routine whether it makes sense to try to get O into a preschool program to be around other kids a couple days a week. I told MIL to think about what passes/memberships she thinks would be useful and fun. We actually got kings island passes this year (o is still free) so we might get MIL a pass too if she wants to bring the kids there sometimes as something different.
I reserve a bounce house, food, and cake- pick it all up or have it delivered, and pay for it. Someone cleans my house so the stress is pretty low other than day of getting things ready. I've hosted a lot of things though so I've got a handle of how to do it easy and cheap. I don't Pinterest. I just make it as fun as I can think of.
I think that's the way to do it. The kids are good as long as there's a bounce house involved. My goal is to get the basement done before E's birthday so we can have a party there and do it mostly outside/in the basement. We had a few kids over the other weekend and the oldest kid kept jumping all over the nice couch. Am I weird because that bothered me? We have cheaper furniture in the basement so i wouldn't care as much about that.
I reserve a bounce house, food, and cake- pick it all up or have it delivered, and pay for it. Someone cleans my house so the stress is pretty low other than day of getting things ready. I've hosted a lot of things though so I've got a handle of how to do it easy and cheap. I don't Pinterest. I just make it as fun as I can think of.
I wish I could do this. If I knew I could count on April 9th always being such a nice day, I'd do a simple outdoor party at my house or a park. I'm jealous of the late spring and summer birthdays.
I reserve a bounce house, food, and cake- pick it all up or have it delivered, and pay for it. Someone cleans my house so the stress is pretty low other than day of getting things ready. I've hosted a lot of things though so I've got a handle of how to do it easy and cheap. I don't Pinterest. I just make it as fun as I can think of.
I think that's the way to do it. The kids are good as long as there's a bounce house involved. My goal is to get the basement done before E's birthday so we can have a party there and do it mostly outside/in the basement. We had a few kids over the other weekend and the oldest kid kept jumping all over the nice couch. Am I weird because that bothered me? We have cheaper furniture in the basement so i wouldn't care as much about that.
I'd be super irritated if the parent wasn't doing anything about that
I reserve a bounce house, food, and cake- pick it all up or have it delivered, and pay for it. Someone cleans my house so the stress is pretty low other than day of getting things ready. I've hosted a lot of things though so I've got a handle of how to do it easy and cheap. I don't Pinterest. I just make it as fun as I can think of.
I think that's the way to do it. The kids are good as long as there's a bounce house involved. My goal is to get the basement done before E's birthday so we can have a party there and do it mostly outside/in the basement. We had a few kids over the other weekend and the oldest kid kept jumping all over the nice couch. Am I weird because that bothered me? We have cheaper furniture in the basement so i wouldn't care as much about that.
You're not weird. If kids are misbehaving or doing something I don't approve of in my home, I feel I have the right to say something. At the same time, like, they're not my kids to discipline, so I would also feel weird saying something.
Yeah, they kept telling him to stop... But then he didn't. He was also seven, so I I think he was also majorly bored hanging out with 3 year olds.
We were at a birthday on Sat. and there were two older boys. Clearly, eight and nine year olds don't play the same as two and three year olds. But it's the adults responsibility to tell the older kids, hey, they're toddlers, you can't behave like that with them. But nope. I had to talk DS into going to play outside to get him away from the older boys, since I couldn't tell them to stop being little aholes.
My kid constantly walks and jumps on the couch and we have to yell at him all the time. We allow him to do it in our basement so I think he forgets he can't do it at my sisters or parents. And usually I'm so distracted with the baby that I'm not as on top of saying "don't do that" right now. Especially if I'm alone. So I get your annoyance and that kid is 7 and not 2. But please have pity on me if my kid acts up right now in public. I'm trying.
I reserve a bounce house, food, and cake- pick it all up or have it delivered, and pay for it. Someone cleans my house so the stress is pretty low other than day of getting things ready. I've hosted a lot of things though so I've got a handle of how to do it easy and cheap. I don't Pinterest. I just make it as fun as I can think of.
I wish I could do this. If I knew I could count on April 9th always being such a nice day, I'd do a simple outdoor party at my house or a park. I'm jealous of the late spring and summer birthdays.
Last year it was raining the morning of the party and rain is always a possibility in May. I just cross my fingers. As the kids get bigger I think I'm going to rent the club house in my neighborhood. It's like $50 and already has table and chairs and an outdoor area too. You could do something like that in April.
My kid constantly walks and jumps on the couch and we have to yell at him all the time. We allow him to do it in our basement so I think he forgets he can't do it at my sisters or parents. And usually I'm so distracted with the baby that I'm not as on top of saying "don't do that" right now. Especially if I'm alone. So I get your annoyance and that kid is 7 and not 2. But please have pity on me if my kid acts up right now in public. I'm trying.
+1 my kids are also no angels and kids will be kids and act up. I'm just ready for our basement to be done so I can just let the kids loose down there and not really worry about the furniture.
Post by sstwinklinglites on Apr 11, 2017 9:06:05 GMT -5
I think there's a big difference between kids doing something and parents telling them, that's not ok, etc., and older kids who know better and are still aholes, or have parents who do nothing. Y'all are safe in my book.
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