Aria's 1st birthday falls on a Friday this year. Trying to decide on a day to celebrate her birthday has been surprisingly difficult. It makes sense to make the birthday a daytime event, because that's when the birthday girl would be awake right? So obviously we should have the birthday on Saturday! BUT! It turns out Saturday my mother in law arrives back from HK @ 2PM and my husband needs to go pick her up. So that means... Saturday would not be a good time to have the birthday party. Without my husband around to help set up and take down... it seemed too much work for me to bother with.
So how about Sunday? Well... it's memorial weekend and the idea of hosting a memorial day bbq seems like too much work. We are low key people, and don't like hosting a huge get-together. But for memorial day, a big get together is almost required.
Since we usually have a weekly get together with our friends every Thursday, I thought a low key Thursday night bbq that's also in celebration of Aria's birth would be a happy compromise. This way when she's down for the night, we can keep eating, drinking, and playing. No need to handle a baby! I ran this idea by my husband and he gave it the greenlight. I sent out the evite for the event... We knew most of the family would not be able to make the bbq because it's a weeknight... but we sent them an invitation anyway because we wanted them to know that we had thought of them.
Unfortunately this gesture seems to have been misinterpreted. Apparently my mother in law is also sad that she can't make her granddaughters birthday. But I'm confused, because 2 weeks ago she said that she wasn't going to her other granddaughter's birthday dinner either. So I thought that she wouldn't mind missing this birthday bbq?
Don't even try suggesting a "family only" event in addition to this bbq either! My goal is a low-key birthday celebration. To have multiple events... it's just too much work! I have enough stuff on my plate to worry about.
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