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Wysłany: Wto 6:48, 26 Kwi 2011 Temat postu: ventilation jordan spizike The Birthday Party |
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and a half hours in a mosque lobby above a Saturday afternoon. Thirty yellow balloons hovering equitable above the ground. Twenty-eight second grade girls. Eight great pizzas. Seven two-liter flasks of soda. A big vegetable dish. One full sheet cake. One karaoke machine. Three loudspeakers. And, the soundtrack to High School Musical 2 playing…over and over and over repeatedly.
I did a lot of counting today - and not just the mathematics of balloons or bottles of soda by my daughter's 8th birthday party. I counted entire the birthday parties I've hosted for my 4 babies since I became a mama. The amount aggregate took me aback: last weekend's birthday festival was party digit thirty-two. 32!
I quested my idea to recollect their themes.
There were at-home parties featuring unicorns, Star Wars personas, pirates (double), firefighters, Harry Potter, kittens, astronauts, butterflies, Dora the Explorer, horses, Legos, marine life, and Rescue Heroes.
My sons have celebrated their birthdays at bowling narrows [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], at a minor ally baseball game, and at laser tag facilities. One of my daughters had a wonderfully messy and inspired party at our community center's pottery laboratory. We've had a luau, ballet parties, and a big backyard rainforest party with sprinklers and plastic wading pools.
We've had store-bought canvas cakes and ornate home-made ones. (You ought have looked the pilfer warship I made [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], complete with root malt barrels, malted breast ball cannonballs, and little plastic pirates ascending the wooden dowel masts.) I've scoured the Internet as the right spun sugar toppers as cupcakes. I've made treasure hunts and modified "Simon Says" in countless ways to eligible the day's theme.
Can you tell? I love it!
Gary Chapman is the inventor of the "Love Languages" series of books. He states that there are 5 basic ways that people "speak and understand affective adore." These are: "physical touch, acts of service, receiving awards [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], quality time, and words of affirmation." Chapman writes that everyone communicates love in one of these ways.
Maybe he could join a sixth one: "giving birthday parties!"
With a engaged home life, for me creating my kids' birthday parties each year is a actual access to show every of them that I appreciative them as individuals. The child whose birthday is reaching is singled out. We pore over birthday party websites and circle fancies we favor in catalogs. We discuss visitor lists at width. At those times, I often study fashionable things about my child's current batch of classmates and the characteristic causes why my child most amounts every friend. We roast, residence invitations, and amass goody bags attach. We decorate for the party - constantly creating homemade decorations to appendix whatever we've bought.
I know parents who make other choices - parents, perhaps, whose love language isn't "giving birthday parties." I have friends who grant their children a party every second or third year. They have banquet at a favorite canteen or go on a special outing to celebrate on the "off" years. Some children don't enjoy huge parties, so instead they invite one or two friends over to see a film or cost the night. I admire parents who limit the number of guests their children tin invite to the old that child is rotating on her afterward birthday. All of these are advisable ideas and ones I can recommend whole-heartedly.
But…I must admit - I don't emulate them myself.
The parties I give my kid aren't liberal. For my daughter's recent High School Musical party, the karaoke machine and microphones were borrowed from a friend. The pizzas were cheap and the cake was $15 from a storage club. The girls spent most of the party dance approximately the apartment. There was no sorcerer and no pony rides. It was just a quite large team of girls dancing and singing.
The most undue choice I've made for of my "birthday party language of love" happened a few years ago. My younger
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