Why Lazy Rocks

At first I thought about having a birthday party for Tristan… a big one. A party with a circus theme where our fabulous friends would volunteer to work a fishing booth, a face painting booth and pick a duck. I was going to give the kids tickets that they could use for rides and to buy their food. I was going to make signs and rent a bounce house.
I bought invitations, grab bag goodies from the internet and invited Tristan’s preschool class. Then about three days later, I came out of whatever haze I was living in and realized that, 1. that party would be a LOT of work and 2. I really didn’t have that much time to put into it. So, I called everyone in Tristan’s class, (only the ones that didn’t get the email that I sent) to tell them that the party was cancelled. No one asked why, which was good, because I didn’t have to explain that, his party was cancelled because in an attempt to make up for the fact that Tristan hasn’t yet had a “real” birthday party all his own, his own mother realized that he’s only 2 years old and probably wouldn’t remember which prize he got from picking a duck in the first place.
So then I decided to just do the circus theme for Connor’s party since I already had the ideas and the grab bag stuffs. Tristan would have just as much fun at Brother’s party and next year Tristan would have a big party of his own… I mean both of the kids are so little that we could take them to Dollywood, tell them its Disney and they'd never know the difference, but then again I realized… I had no desire to put the whole thing together. Without a play set in the backyard, what would the kids do for three hours? I am perfectly capable of entertaining 10 kids if the yard is set up for it... but entertaining 10 kids and 10 parents... well that's a whole different story, unless a keg is involved.
So, we decided to have Connor’s party at Space Kidets, one of the bounce places filled with arcade games and jumpable inflatables where you have your party in their space. We were able to have the whole place to ourselves for dare I say, just a little more than we would have spent having the party at our house. The kids bounced and then sang happy birthday to Connor and had cake. I didn’t even serve or cut the cake. It was fabulous. I didn’t have to spend a week cleaning the house. I didn’t have to worry about what we would do if it rained, (which is did). We just showed up, bounced, had cake and went home. It was wonderful! I loved it and so did the kids. I think they definitely had more fun than they would have in our backyard and it was completely mosquito free. And do you know what I did the night before? I laid on the couch, watched Jon Stewart and painted my toenails. I can't think of a better way to throw a party.