Birthday Boy's planner

I guess Lefty takes after his mom with his love for lists and planning. He came to me back in February...yes February folks... with his spiral notebook in hand and showed me his plans for his birthday...which is the end of April.

He had a page for the guest list. A full page of hand written names of all the kids he will be inviting {or as his mom says, all the kids he would LIKE to invite}. There was a total of 23 kids listed. {hmmm, mom thinks that sounds like a lot of kids!}

He had a page for the "centers" that he would have going on during the party. He knew how many kids would be at one certain center at a time and he knew how often they should rotate centers. {yes, he did!}

He then realized he would need some "adult helpers" because of all the kids he would invite, so he had a page of adult helpers. Yet, another half page or so of hand written names (probably 10-15 names), these adults included uncles, aunts, adult friends, etc.

This whole party is to take place in my home. While I feel my home is a nice size for entertaining friends and family on a small scale, it is no Community Center. Not even close to being able to hold a major amount of people (comfortably anyway) in my house. Even with these "centers" he wants, my house is not set up for all this.

I was talking with a friend of mine, she works in the school system so she is around little people all day, and she also has 2 kids of her own. She was telling me to go ahead and let him help me plan it, he will get a sense of how much work it is. Ok, fine and dandy, but my thought on that is he will only realize how much work it is AFTER the fact. So in the meantime, I am reviewing his lists and trying to figure out a compromise!

I will have you know that the party I had in mind was not quite as big and elaborate! I will do another post later on what we finally agree on!

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