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Kids’ Birthday Parties: Competitive Sport?

March 16, 2011

For awhile there, throwing kids’ birthday parties became something of a competitive sport.  Bigger!  More costly!  Further away!  More outrageously extravagant!  Bet you can’t top this! Among the trendy, however, we are seeing a return to birthday parties where the kids actually get to have honest-to-goodness kid-type fun with one another! These most often take [...]

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The Cutest Kids Thank You Cards I’ve Ever Seen

January 21, 2011

I’m a big proponent of sending thank you cards immediately following an event where it is proper etiquette to do so. I guess my mother instilled this in me all those years ago. Anyway, I just received the cutest thank you card from the little girl whose party my daughter attended at one of those [...]

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Kids Party Invitations Can Lead to Insanity!

January 5, 2011

Is it me or have children’s birthday parties gone from fun to berserk? It seems that from the time you start looking at kids party invitations until the last balloon is popped, madness reigns. We have taken a simple happy celebration and elevated its importance to the level of necessary insanity. I go along with [...]

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