Summer-summer-summertime….

So, today is day 3 of vacation for the boys, camp doesn’t start for another month, and they are inventing games that get louder and louder every morning. I’m exhausted from cutting up stars and foam core sheets for the crafts and making candy stars for their joint birthday party next week – Hollywood Dance Party 2008. This is their first party together, their birthdays are a week apart. Usually the little one was very specific about what he wants (well, last year anyways, he was 3 and SOOOOO into Thomas).
See, I throw blowouts for them every year. Yes, I’m the evil mom who likes to show up all of her friends by throwing extravaganzas at every hot spot in town, fabulous goody bags, and hiring rap stars to teach them the latest dance craze. Well, not really, not the rap star part. My house cannot and will not have more than 6 or 7 kids in it at any given time, and since my oldest has a social network that rivals Paris Hilton’s, I simply refuse to have his at the house. So, we’ve had gym parties, Y parties, and playroom parties. But, being as I want to make this a profession, I really need the practice.

The little one knows like 3 people and we’ve had no problems with parties at home for him, but since he was in preschool this year, he has ACTUAL friends that aren’t siblings of his brother’s friends, thus the joint party. And people, my kids don’t care what I do, I’m the psychotic one who obsesses 10 minutes after the party over next year’s theme. I pray it’s not genetic…

This year, we are renting out our local community room (super cheap for the 14 hour rental time!) and decking it out in lights and balloons and stars for the club feel. And since I’m crafty (read cheap, cheap, cheap) I’m making as much of it as I can. Now I realize that my time is valuable and sometimes I buy it when I can make it, let’s just put it to you this way, my friends know that if they receive a store bought card, I’m pissed off at them. Except for party invites, sometimes I cheat and buy packaged ones…they are so inventive sometimes!!

But I digress, I’m cutting out stars for the craft, because damn it, there will be a craft,there always is at my parties….