Is anyone else amazed at the number of birthday parties that their kids get invited to monthly? It is unbelieveable to me. Are parents saving money on toys by throwing their kids two parties a year or something? My wife and I make a point to take our kids to all of the activities that we can, because the kids want to go and it is good for them to develop socially, but it is almost unmanageable.
I don't think we have had more than one weekend per month since my youngest started school that we don't have a party to go to. You know, I always thought that as my kids got older, that my wife and I might start to earn back some of the free time that you lose because you have young kids that require assistance all of the time. Guess what, that isn't going to happen.
I wish that parents would recognize this and start to make these parties more dad friendly. How about a nice cooler of tall cold ones to sit beside the juice boxes? Why not cook up some nice steaks to go with the hamburgers and hot dogs?
And why don't we get gift bags when we leave the party? Kids get candy and stickers and all kinds of neat little junk. How about making me a bag with some peanuts, a beer coozie and a spool of weed whacker line?
I don't know -
