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1st Bday ?
Autumn's FIRST birthday is next month! (let's not even get into how I just had her...YESTERDAY it seems!)
My current idea: Just do birthday cake at like 730pm that night. It gives me enough time to get home, get settled and do a *key word here* LITTLE setup. Have my brother (his wife & their baby), MIL, and SIL (& family) come over for cake-only festivities, do quick presents and be done.
There's two issues: 1) it's a weeknight, so our oldest nieces will likely have school the next day and if they don't come over til 730ish it'll probably be past their bedtime by the time they get home 2) there are other people I want to have around to celebrate her 1st bday with, like some awesome friends that have helped me survive these past 12 months and my employers and the kids I nanny for who have practically become older siblings to my child, but 730 is definitely way too late for them to come over
Other option: Save a party for the weekend. Then 1) what do I do for her actual birthday - because you just HAVE to do something! It's your child's first birthday, for goodness sakes! and 2) then I feel obligated to plan a larger party with food, hats, cute plates and let's just throw in a few party kazoos and streamers! And as much as I wouldn't mind doing that, our house isn't really that big...I don't want my SIL to host because I don't want to intrude (and a part of it wants it to be a party that I put on for my daughter, not her aunt) and it's kind of a far drive for some people
AHHHH! And THIS is why I've been refusing to come to terms with my child's first birthday
BTW...hi girls! Long time no see. Things have been...busy to say the least. Hope you all are well (somewhere along the lines all your children got so big! How did that happen?!)
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Re: 1st Bday ?
we had a "party" the weekend before ds's bday since it was on a weekday. so for his "party" we just had a cook out, did presents and i made cupcakes for everyone. then for his actual bday we just had a small cake and saved him a present to open.
it was nice this way bc he still got to have a party and we still got to do something privately with him.
i don't know that i'd do the weekday event w/everyone since its starting so late. i don't know what time your dd goes to bed, but i wouldn't want a 1 year old ingesting that much sugar right before bed lol. might make bedtime a litle tricky if ya know what i mean!
our house is small so i get what you mean, but it really wasn't bad. we had 9 adults and ds, not to mention 5 dogs in the mix.... and most of them stayed at our house!!!!! ahh! so i say as long as you can send them home at the end of the day, go for it! lol
Personally, I'd do it on a weekend. If we were invited to a party at that time, we wouldn't be able to come due to DD's bedtime, so if you've got kids in that situation that you'd want to be there, I'd try to do something earlier. Plus, doing it on a weekend would mean no after work scrambling!
We did a simple party at our house for DD's 1st b'day. We did have quite a few people there, but it was still simple. Just some food (nothing fancy--Chick Fil-a nugget & wrap trays, fruit & veggie trays, and some goldfish & teddy grahams for the toddlers--and cake!), opening gifts, and hanging out. You can still keep it simple if that's what you'd like to do! GL and happy early birthday to your LO!