Until this year we had not celebrated the birthday of my oldest daughter with friends, but when we decided to do it, we didn't know what was coming. Luckily we have a large outdoor space to accommodate a certain kid's, but neither could the whole class or all family members be invited near or far following the family tree.
So we had to decide, to make the arduous decision of who to invite to a girl's birthday. Then, together with the cousins of similar age and other friends who are not my daughter's class, we told the little girl that she could choose (how bad it sounds) five little class friends.
We explained that everyone could not come because parents could not take care of buying and preparing for everyone, and she understood. Probably the excitement of his first birthday "big time" overwhelmed him, or he simply understood.
To her five “elect” of the school we add those kids who had invited her to her sometime. And at this point I can tell you that, fortunately, there were not many. Something that probably will not be repeated in next birthdays because, as a result of what was seen (the birthday was celebrated a few months ago) has been to celebrate his birthday and start receiving invitations to those of others.
Which leads me to think that, as I imagined before the suspicious absence of birthday invitations In the first two years of my daughter's schooling, in general they don't invite you if you haven't invited before. This absence of invitations at first seemed a bit sad, because I had attended the delivery under the cover, as if it were illegal traffic in narcotic substances, birthday invitations to the entrance or exit of the school.
Wasn't my daughter loved by her friends, even though her relations with them indicated the opposite? Or rather, my daughter seemed to have no birthday (she had always fallen on bridge days, without school and with the family traveling) and then she would not be invited either?
This in turn would lead us to a paradox, because then, Who is the first to invite in a class, in a group of friends? Beyond, how was the first birthday in Humanity? What family would decide to invite if a previous invitation had not taken place before?
Anyway, leaving aside these disquisitions about birthday archeology, and returning to the celebration of my oldest daughter's party, I will tell you that among family, friends, classmates, with their respective friends and brothers, we get together near fifty people.
You can already imagine that a special purchase had to be made (I do not mean special delicacies, but bread, loin, cooked ham, sausage, chips and drink for fifty). And preparations had to be made, because all that purchase did not magically turn into a prepared table.
And that with five class friends chosen by my daughter. How many would we have become if instead of five we had told him to choose eight or ten friends, as we actually thought?
How the miraculous case of the multiplication of fish and loaves, a list of just ten or fifteen people magically became a crowd of fifty. With the consequent miraculous multiplication of sandwiches and soft drinks, although for miraculous the economic effort that sometimes must be done in these cases, and to see how we multiply the bills of 20 euros ...
And there is also the issue of the multiplication of gifts, something that at this point seems impossible to contain, but we will talk about that on another occasion.
Let's see if you understand me, then have a great time (well, let's be honest, much better children, who do not have to worry that everything is ready and in time). But you end up very tired, waiting for next year, as has happened in the previous ones, birthday falls in the middle of a beautiful bridge and catches us away from home To celebrate a quieter party.
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In Babies and more | Birthdays: alternatives to candy bags, Children's birthdays are expensive, Birthday parties from one to three years, Ball parks or canned children's leisure
