Last night, around 9pm, I got a phone call from a friend of mine. She has three kids, with the 2 youngest being close in age to my 2. We have played together often. Now she is a professional woman, a very good and successful one from what I can gather. However, with that comes a very mathematical, scientific, and critical thinking individual. When she called, she was in panic mode because those dont exactly create calmness in trying to plan birthday parties for 2 of her kids this weekend. She is throwing her 7 yr old boy's on Saturday and her 4yr old girl's party on Sunday. Her original plan was to throw them together, as she has done the past 2 years. However, now that the 7yr old is in school and the little girl is starting to actually care about her party theme, she decided for sanity purposes to split them up. However, thats as far in the planning mode as she has gotten. The parties are in a couple of days and she is lost. So, thanks to my friends knowing my previous life of wedding coordinating, I get a phone call.
Im actually thrilled to help, I love this stuff! In fact, Ive often thought, if I ever get back into the work game, I wouldnt mind switching my specialty to child birthday parties and such. I do miss weddings but I fear it would take too much time away from my family. I feel celebration parties would be slightly less stressful and dont always have to happen on weekend nights, when I want to be home with my kids. Now, granted if the right bride came along I probably wouldnt turn it down. The great thing about this type of job, you get to kind of choose how you want your schedule to be.
Anyway, back to topic. Since I didnt actually throw Lorelai a party this year(we did a small meetup with a couple of friends at a bounce house place and are counting Disney as part of her birthday celebration) Im excited to make up for it with someone else's kid.
First off, the boys party, we are creating a Star Wars Jedi party. We are inviting all of his school friends to a Jedi training conference. Here they will get to do things such as practice their fencing skills with light sabers(created with pool noodles) and target practice(storm trooper balloons and nerf guns).
Then on Sunday, we will host a Princess Tea. They will walk into a perfect ladylike tea, where they will decorate their own tea cookies, enjoy some spa treatment and of course get into costume. We will decorate in pink, white and flowers( requested by the princess, herself.) We plan to include "china" and pretty little touches throughout.
Overall, the weekend should be very busy, hopefully successful and a little exhausting! I for one am excited and ready to get my game plan in motion. Tomorrow I will be heading out to shop for needed supplies. She emailed me her lists of preferences and Ive made a detailed list of where to go for everything. I plan to possibly go over Friday evening to get started decorating on the first party and return early Saturday. Luckily, my husband will be off so that my kids can attend the party and be watched as well. It would be a lot harder for me to get all this done with them under my sole supervision.
Have any of you ever thrown a party with either of these themes before? Do you have a blog about it? What activities did your party include?
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