Birthday Parties

With twins, birthday parties can be a bit trickier to plan especially if you have a boy and a girl. I found this to be the case. I had tried to delay the inevitable "I want to invite my friends from school" party as long as I could. The year is upon us where this will be the new reality.

The first question was how do we go about arranging this. Will there be a seperate boy party and a seperate girl party? On the same day or different days? Again, the underlying question still remains, is it seperate or together? Being a mom is an endless gig that just zaps the energy out of you, so I decided that I want to do this party one time. It will be a boys and girls party celebrating both Ryan and Moy's birthday on the same day...one party.

The second question was how the inviting will be done. Will everyone just come and celebrate both Ryan and Moy's birthday regardless of who he/she plays with more or whether it is Ryan's friend or Moy's friend? That would mean everyone attending should bring two gifts, one for each child. At first I wondered to myself, will people have an issue with this? I talked to some friends and through much consultation it really is no different than going to two different birthday parties for children of two different families. In fact, this saves a trip and a weekend afternoon. Since Ryan and Moy are in the same class it will not be strange for the guests to celebrate both their birthdays because they all know the twins. If they were in different classes, I may have had to celebrate over two days because it is a lot more difficult to have 30 to 40 kids in a single place. Also, same situation but with a single party, I would have invitations specifying who's birthday a guest was invited to, so only one gift would need to be brought, unless it was a friend that they shared then two gifts would be appropriate.

The third question involved location and activity. This the simplest part for me, so no advice needed there as long as it would be good for both boys and girls.

The fourth and last question for me involved the cake. I am going to plan for individual themed cupcakes. There can be boy ones and girls ones if the twins get picky about it. The best thing is there will be no cutting and guests can take it home if they like.

After this "I want to invite my friends from school" party is over, it is time to setup the family one because everyone needs to be satisfied.  No, I don't think there is anything that I will get out of all this except to see my kids happy. That really is the only reason that I will put myself through this. Wish me luck!