Re: Bday Party


toto wrote:
On 31 May 2006 02:03:52 -0700, "lisabell" <lisabell_98@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

When I hear from my niece in England about how girls come in to school
with party invitations which they ceremoniously hand out to only their
select group of friends (aka the popular crowd), it seems awfully rude
to me.

We always mailed party invitations or gave them to my kids friends
parents when we saw them in person. I would never have my kids hand
out invitations in school if everyone in the class was not invited.

However, for us, having the entire class was too much chaos. We never
did that even at the preschool age.


Even *I* would balk at having the *entire* class over, but that depends
on the class size I guess. Money's not the issue as it'd be an at home
party and feeding 25 6 yr olds is not a lot different from feeding 5-10
kids (burgers, hot dogs, basic simple stuff), but 25 6 yr olds in one
place might be a bit much. 25 kids of varying ages from 1-12 is
different, IMO, which is how I usually think of parties with lots of
kids.

Even my mom, party planner extraordinaire only did this once as I
recall (tho she may have done it for my older siblings) - she had a
joint party for my sister and I, ages ~ 5&8 and both our classes were
invited (probably 40 kids showed up). But she did have a lot of help in
the form of other adults and my older siblings.

.

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