If your family is local...

Discussion in 'Childhood and Beyond (4+)' started by megkc03, Oct 10, 2012.

  1. megkc03

    megkc03 Well-Known Member TS Moderator

    So! If your family is local, do you have them over on the kids actual birthday for cake, etc? Or do you just have them at the party?

    The boys birthday is next Thursday. What we usually do is go out to dinner, and then invite our parents over for cake/coffee. Their party is on Saturday. So we will have the kids party in the afternoon, and then the family party at night-and do cake all over again(three times!).

    Just wondering what everyone else does. I was thinking of all of us(grandparents, etc), going out to dinner on the boys birthday, as they are turning five, but Dh said no.

    Thanks!
     
  2. lharrison1

    lharrison1 Well-Known Member TS Moderator

    We invite my parents and Seth's sister/bil (local) over for pizza and cupcakes or something on their actual birthday, then do a party for them on the weekend before or after.
     
  3. 2 Munchkins

    2 Munchkins Well-Known Member

    We always invite the grandparents and uncles/aunts over for the party, same with the partents for the invited kids (mostly neighbors), since the kids birthday is in the summer. We usually have about 40 people. For the girls actual birthday, we go out for dinner as a family.
     
  4. TwinxesMom

    TwinxesMom Well-Known Member

    We do small family dinner on bday and extended family at party.
     
  5. Danibell

    Danibell Well-Known Member TS Moderator

    We do dinner out (or in if it's a school night) for just us on their birthday and I make them a cake. Then we invite family and friends for the party (and have more cake). ;)

    If it makes you feel any better at all, I'm a big believer in each kid getting their own cake. Seans birthday is Feb 17th and the twins is Feb 21st. So I make 1 cake for Sean's birthday, 1 cake for twins birthday, and then 3 cakes for their party (which is either the weekend before, or the weekend after....combined party). Do you know how much cake I end up eating that week??!?!?!!?! For the twins second birthday i got away with just 2 cakes for the party, 1 was Lightning McQueen and one was Sally. So technically Sean and Liam shared ;)
     
  6. summerfun

    summerfun Well-Known Member TS Moderator

    On the actual birthday we go out to dinner (the bday child's choice) and do cake as a family. We don't invite any grandparents etc on the actual bday...with school etc. it's just too hard to do on the actual day so we just celebrate as a family that day. And now that the kids are older we just do a friends birthday party and for the family I just do a birthday dessert and only serve cake and ice cream. I just can't invite family and friends to the birthday party anymore..it's too many people.
     
  7. Katheros

    Katheros Well-Known Member

    When we were local, we did just us on their actual birthday and then grandparents and etc. at the party.
     
  8. sharongl

    sharongl Well-Known Member

    Well, our situation is a bit different in that the boys actually share a birthday with their grandfather, so usually my parents take the whole family out for the 3 birthdays (used to be 4 before my brother got divorced), and then we invite my parents to the kids birthday if they want to come. Now that the boys are older, they usually opt out.
     
  9. tinalb

    tinalb Well-Known Member TS Moderator

    We have a kids party with their classmates/friends, a family dinner with grandparents and aunts, uncles, cousins on either the Sunday before or the Sunday after, and if their birthday doesn't fall on any of those days, we usually go out for dinner on their actual day.
     
  10. Minette

    Minette Well-Known Member

    We have 3 celebrations -- one big bash at a party place for all their friends; one dinner with the grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins; and a smaller observance (sometimes just a cupcake after dinner) with just DH and me. The last one is on their actual birthday -- the other two are whenever we can fit them in.

    Their birthday is the week before Thanksgiving, and their twin cousins' birthday is a few days earlier. So ever since our girls were 5 and their cousins were 3, we've done a joint extended-family party for that.

    Plus, there's always some sort of birthday observation at school. In daycare/preschool it was more like an actual party, with treats and "Happy Birthday." In elementary school they do something more subtle. But my DDs are still sick of being the center of attention by the time it's all over. Last year one of them actually had a temper tantrum because she didn't want to hear "Happy Birthday" AGAIN. :ibiggrin:
     
  11. kingeomer

    kingeomer Well-Known Member TS Moderator

    Well, my kids birthday is 12/26 (great timing me and DH..) and we see all of the local family between 12/24 and 12/25 and if we were do something with all the family, it would probably happen either one of those days. But since those days are celebrating Christmas, we usually do something small with just the kids and me & DH on 12/26. Last year we had my best friend and her family over for dinner and cupcakes on their actual birthday and then the party was the weekend after New Years and that was the whole family. We will be doing the same this year.
     
  12. sulik110202

    sulik110202 Well-Known Member

    In the past we have always done a family party for the kids and we would include a few of their friends from daycare. Now that they are in kindergarten, I think we will do a party for their friends from school and then maybe just a dinner on their birthday for the family.
     
  13. Fran27

    Fran27 Well-Known Member

    On the birthday date. I don't think family would really enjoy a kids' party.
     
  14. megkc03

    megkc03 Well-Known Member TS Moderator

    Yeah we are having kids from 12-3:30. Then from 4:30-? we are doing aunts, uncles, grandparents. Because my cousin is flying in from Michigan with her son, her sister and father will be there as well, along with my parents, brother and his family. One long day!

    If anything, we will do dinner solo and have grandparents meet us at the house for coffee/cake later. It seems to work for now!
     
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