After five years of working way too hard to come up with clever party themes and ordering custom invites or, worse, making them myself (crafty, I am not), I had resigned myself to not being OCD about it and just letting them pick. I didn't want to spend a lot of money, I just wanted it to be easy and done.
So we went to Party City (even though I'm pretty sure I swore I wouldn't go there anymore) and walked the aisles of cheesy, character-themed party supplies. After about 10 minutes in the store, Aidan came up with his own brilliant idea. "Why don't we just decorate our own cards?"
My mind started racing with visions of being left under a pile of construction paper and glitter glue. Is this backwards day? I'm letting you have SpongeBob Squarepants!
Despite my subtle pleas to the contrary, Aidan was insistent that he wanted to make his own invites. I considered putting my foot down and forcing them to choose either Spongebob or Spiderman, but that seemed really twisted and wrong. So we left Party City empty-handed and headed to Target for card-making supplies.
I estimate that the premade cards would have cost us $12-14. The card-making supplies (blank cards, glitter markers and stickers) cost $20. So much for saving money and doing it the easy way.
And so, as I sit here, the boys are hard at work making invitations. When Aidan said "decorate," he clearly meant "write a novel," as he is currently pondering whether it's okay to use two exclamation points in one sentence. Here is just one example of his handiwork:
Meanwhile, Owen has drawn a complex series of blobs:
He says they are caves because "it's a bear's birthday!" Obviously.
Maybe next year I will get the store bought party I have been dreaming of...
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