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Funny situation--any ideas? :-D

post #1 of 4
8/7/01 at 3:51pm
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I had read on the internet that parties for young children should be limited to just a few guests, as not to overwhelm the birthday child or other children attending. My son will be 3 soon, and we had planned to just invite his four playgroup playmates. Recently, two of the Moms who's homes had been up for sale have announced that they have received offers for their homes and will be leaving the area. The third Mom has said, in passing, that she will be very busy with her church this Fall with a Women's group that meets on Saturdays for meetings, community outreach, etc. And although the fourth Mom hasn't mentioned any plans that might prevent her child from coming to the party, I'm beginning to think that when the invitations for my son's party go out, we'll either only have one guest attending--or none at all! LOL! :-D Any ideas on how to handle a situation like this? My idea is just to have everything set up in the backyard like planned (it's a construction party) and just have my husband and I enjoy all the fun activities with our son anyway. Enjoy the games, the music, have a great day outside, enjoy some birthday cake and really celebrate the day like we'd planned and hope for a better turnout at next year's party. LOL! :-) Has anyone gone through this? It makes me chuckle to think about having a party with no guests. :-) At my son's age, I doubt he'd be bothered by it. :-)
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post #2 of 4
8/8/01 at 11:41am
I wouldn't cancel the party if he's looking forward to it. I would just make sure I didn't spend too much on food that didn't get eaten. Do you have any relatives that could come? Except for my son's first birthday party, we've had only family at our other parties and they've been a lot of fun.
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post #3 of 4
8/18/01 at 10:11pm
Celabrate the day just like you have planned. I think it sounds great. If you have guest great if you don't just your loving family you three. I like it this way with the money you don't spend on food maybe you could buy him another present or something for the back yard that day.
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post #4 of 4
9/20/01 at 5:47am
I think it's fine to continue as planned for the party. Up until my oldest daughters 4th birthday party we had no other children except mine, even though plenty were invited. I'm not sure why people don't show up, sometimes I think the excuses are kind of lame. Considering we've shown up for their parties and have brought really great gifts and they can't even make it. They say they'll have to see. Needless to say these are not the greatest of "friends". But they make sure they call me at least twice to make sure we are going to make it. Our really great friends have shown up for every party we've had and brought great gifts and played with the kids just like we do. We have great pictures of their parties and we'll just tell them when they are older and ask why there are no other kids that we didn't know anyone with children their age

He'll remember the fun he had and the cake and ice cream and won't worry too much about no kids if you don't. Just have fun with whoever does show up and make a big deal out of his special day!
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