It seems that birthday season is landing on us here. I see a lot of questions from friends about planning birthday parties. Do they do the party at home or at a location that does birthday parties? Do they do the super hero party theme or do they go with the gender neutral theme and combine the two kids’ parties into one event?
I have come to realize there are two type of party planning moms out there … ones that plan a birthday party like it is a wedding and ones that plan a birthday party because they need to plan a birthday party. I am more of the later party planning mommy for sure. I am not needing costume party ideas or crazy themes off Pinterest for the birthday parties we host. I do let the kids pick their theme and we work off that. I generally end up making some half attempt at a cake because I refuse to spend $40-60 on a birthday cake. I thought Grace hit the jackpot last year when not only did we plan a game for her friends but we also made goodie bags.
I do realize the big perks to having a party at a business that hosts parties though. The biggest one is that people are not in your house! No cleaning the bathroom three times to still have your kids mess it up the minute before people arrive. Plus you are generally time boxed into when your party is so you don’t have to worry about the party lasting four hours instead of one hour. The best part though is that the decorations and activities are already built into most of those locations. So you show up with your cake and your are done … well after you pay that bill.
Now that bill is where I cringe and is why we mostly host parties at the house. I am sure that at home parties won’t be cool here soon so I will enjoy it while the kids are happy to have kids play in our backyard or the playroom during their party time! I will also keep enjoying that they think my lame cake attempts are masterpieces. I know they will soon will realize they could do better with that princess cake than I did! But honestly as long as they are happy with the little celebrations that we have, I am thrilled with them.
Now does anyone have any suggestions for a CARS cake? That is the next cake coming up here at our house and that one scares me!
i LOVE having parties at places. cleaning before AND after is exhausting and honestly when we host we spend just as much at home for food etc
Simple but very nice design of birthday cake. I like the design. Very very Nice!!!!!