Rita's Rants n Raves

For the last 10 years I have always celebrated my sons' birthday with a party. This year I decided to take him to Toys R Us instead for the simple reason that there are "certain" people that should be at family parties and since they are so "busy" with other things they never come. Well I have had it and decided that I will not have any more parties, THANK YOU FAMILY MEMBERS (by the way the ones who never show up do not read my blog postings, DARN!).
My son was fine with going to Toys R Us and buying toys that he says he always wanted.
For the last couple of years he has wanted to have his friends have a sleep over for his birthday. Each year there was an excuse for us to say no. This year we said yes because we were able to have the in-laws take the girls for the weekend and my foster kids were spending the weekend with their older siblings, so it was a perfect weekend for R to have his sleep over, or so I thought. I gave him a limit of how many boys he could have over, that number was 8. My daughter M always had birthday sleepovers and there were always 7-8 girls (those were the fun times, I miss them). So he past out 8 invites, now just to let you know I was NOT looking forward to having 8 wild boys spend the night, but it is only fair that R have his friends over just like M did. Well by Friday only 2 responded, I figured no big deal I am sure the rest will call on Saturday morning. WRONG!!!!!!!! By 7pm there was 1 person here, the other kid that responded called to say he couldn't come because he was sick. By 8pm another boy showed up that had forgotten to reply. Wow two kids came to his party, and both of these boys couldn't sleep over! Now I didn't pray to GOD that these kids wouldn't show, really I didn't. I felt so bad for my son that the boys he had invited didn't all come. This was his first sleepover and it bombed. Saturday night when the last boy left, R came up to me and hugged me and said "thanks for my party mom". I wanted to cry I felt so bad for him, he did look sad but he did say that he had fun with the two kids that showed up, not to mention eating tons of pizza and cake. Well R maybe next year your sleepover will be a success.