Does every child remember the birthday party…………..
This is a question I have been nagging myself with since I am now starting to plan my daughter’s 7th birthday party!! Well actually it’s a major early birthday party because her birthday is in July and since she doesn’t have school in July and I have no idea where all her classmates live to give invitations to……..lol…………….we are opting for the first week of June or rather we were hoping to have it the first week of June but as it turns out there are two other little girls that were born on the same day as my daughter so now I have to make it earlier so everyone will come cause they are having their birthday parties early as well…………….
Anyway on to my point…………….the thing is does every child remember the birthday parties that their parents spend so much money on and go out of their way to make special and everything else?? I know it’s not the money so much as it is the little things but those little things are becoming expensive to along with everything else these days!! But to be honest I don’t really remember……..so either I have a bad memory which I will admit I do at times……..lol……..but it’s called mommy brain not memory loss……….lol……………or my parents (mainly my mohter because Dad was to busy to support us as he was the only income and we had a five person family) didn’t really go out of their way to make it special like I do with my children…..but I guess times are also different……………….I don’t remember getting the big parties like my daughter does and I surely don’t remember them being themed……..maybe my cake was a certain character but then again my mother is a cake decorator by trade so I always had the best decorated cakes…………lol….but I definately don’t remember there being themed plates/cups/tablecovers, etc………..which brings me on to my next thing!!! I know I know I’m complaining but really it’s not complaining about spending the money or anything but it’s just the big planning and getting ready for it that really wears me out…………….I’m exhausted………………….lol!! Not to mention that nobody RSVP’s anymore so you don’t know how much to prepare for…………..it’s frustrating and stressful……………well it is to me anyway cause I prepare for it and make sure we have everthing single detail taken care of…………..I’m really thinking I have OCD(obsessive-compulsive disorder) when it comes to having things a certain way or looking a certain way!!
Anyway I live in a small town with only a Walmart and a small one at that for my basic shopping needs and a Dollarama which if you shop there they don’t carry the ever popular ‘HANNAH MONTANA’ birthday themed plates, cups, decorations, etc…………………so where in the heck do I get these said things that my daughter wants……….and the closest big shopping center is five hours away and we aren’t going there anytime soon……….well you might have guessed it already but Ebay………………..and as you know most of the stuff is located in the US so now I’m hoping that they don’t get held up in customs………well I have till the end of May so I’m hoping everything will be fine……….oh dear then what would I do………………how will my daughter react to that……….I would feel so terrible………that would break her heart cause she is so excited to have a ‘HANNAH MONTANA’ party!! Obviously nobody else is doing it cause they can’t get it here and parents here don’t seem to go out of their way like I do so either I’m just really anal about my daughter having the best birthdays ever or -this is going to sound bad but- simple………………….
Everything just year seems to be Hannah Montana with my little girl………………..which makes me want to cry really because she is getting so big and getting so mature but still little girl all wrapped up into one, if you know what I mean??!! It feels like she grew up a bit over night………………last year was Bratz and the year before was Barbie……………..and now Hannah Montana who is a teenage idol………….where did the time go??
I guess a word of advice to everybody…………….cherish every moment together and love and treat your kids with so much respect and love that they will want to stay your babies forever………………well not really but you get the idea……………lol!!
And really I do see a difference on how children act and protray themselves these days…………….my little girl is just that a little girl but other little girls in her class wear make up and put colored streaks in their hair and act so much older than what they are………….I don’t want that for my little girl even if that makes her the odd one out…………….she deserves so much more than being more of a young girl than a little girl if you understand what I’m trying to say……………she deserves just to be a little girl without all the pressures and everything else that would make her seem more grown up than she is already!!
Anyway enough with my rant………………that’s it it’s over……………..just how I feel and I know everyone parents differently and some people may not see a big deal about make up or hair streaks but I do…………….I just want my little girl to grow up with out society’s influence on her at such a young age!!!
Anyway that’s all for today…………….write more later I’m sure………………
