Yes, I am a party pooper. When I was growing up, me and my siblings had an occasional birthday party where we were allowed to invite other people, but it was always at our house and pretty much just involved cake and icecream. It didn't involve spending lots of money to invite lots of people to do something. I firmly believe this is the way Birthday's should be. So how on earth do I get pulled into doing something I totally resent, like staying up until midnight making a cake and letting my soon-to-be 11 year old invite 8 people to the Aquatic Center this afternoon? I give in to her desires and then I'm angry about it the whole time!
I went to the store to get cake stuff, when I usually end up buying one these days because our schedules are too busy to consider baking. However, I cannot bring myself to pay $18 for a cake when I can make one for a fraction of that. Spending nearly $100 on swimming helped me with that decision! After my trip to the store and mixing all the ingredients, I realized I threw away the crisco last week because it went rancid from lack of use, so I was incredibly cranky on my second trip to the store, with a shirt covered in cake splatters and lines that went on forever! Callie called me on the way there and I just went off about birthdays and how they will be celebrated from now on and how we don't have money to take all these people out to do something...blah blah blah...and then she started crying! Of course I felt terrible!
This is the new rule! Birthdays will be celebrated at our house, with our family and if you want to have friends come over that's fine too. But we won't be going on Limo rides and then have a bowling party, and we won't be sending everyone to the aquatic center either! So take it or leave it!
I went to the store to get cake stuff, when I usually end up buying one these days because our schedules are too busy to consider baking. However, I cannot bring myself to pay $18 for a cake when I can make one for a fraction of that. Spending nearly $100 on swimming helped me with that decision! After my trip to the store and mixing all the ingredients, I realized I threw away the crisco last week because it went rancid from lack of use, so I was incredibly cranky on my second trip to the store, with a shirt covered in cake splatters and lines that went on forever! Callie called me on the way there and I just went off about birthdays and how they will be celebrated from now on and how we don't have money to take all these people out to do something...blah blah blah...and then she started crying! Of course I felt terrible!
This is the new rule! Birthdays will be celebrated at our house, with our family and if you want to have friends come over that's fine too. But we won't be going on Limo rides and then have a bowling party, and we won't be sending everyone to the aquatic center either! So take it or leave it!
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