birthday conundrum

[ajva]

Hi there. I wonder if you can all help me. I turn 30 next February and I want to have huge party goodness - but the date I was going to use for a birthday party (7th Feb - my birthday's on the 5th) clashes with the winks club dinner, which is an absolute social must for me. I'm also still unsure what I'm going to do to celebrate. The only thing I'm certain of is that I want to do a variety of things so that as many people as possible have a chance to come to some of it.

To this end, a poll...



[Poll #207160]

Comments

[booklectica]

All the event ideas sound great. I fervently hope to be able to make it on whatever date is arranged - generally speaking, February would be better because I should be expressing milk by then and thus able to leave the house in the evening. :) But it will still depend on finding a babysitter, assuming that both fathers will want to attend your birthday as well. On the whole it would probably be best not to take me into account when planning dates.

[lovingboth]

Good luck. Jo Anna absolutely refused to have breastmilk in a bottle. So she went everywhere mummy did.

Fortunately, two or three month-old babies are very portable and sleep a lot. If there's any horizontal baby-sized space they can be left in (no rolling over yet!) they should be fine. Or finding people to volunteer their shoulder to act as a bed for a baby is not difficult.

When she was slightly older (about five or six months from memory) we were surprised and pleased when she was fine with water in a cup, provided she could hold it.

But milk had to be 'direct from source' until it was mixed with baby rice from five months.

[adjectivemarcus.livejournal.com]

It occurs to me that a day out at the zoo could easily be followed by another event, and would be more accessible for people with kids..?

[ajva.livejournal.com]

Indeed. This is part of the motivation for my Cunning Multiple Celebration Ruse. :o)

I'm weighing up how popular the different options are, and then I expect I'll do two or hopefully three of them, perhaps on consecutive days.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

I said no to cocktail bar and London Eye because of expense, and I said no to theatre because I don't see that as being a very sociable thing for a big group of people. I said no to swimming because I can't swim, and while I love playing in the water, would probably get quite bored and selfconscious.

[ajva.livejournal.com]

Thanks for these explanations. I should just point out, though, that I was intending to pay for the London Eye capsule myself, if that makes a difference (forgot to say that in the poll). I wouldn't pay for all the drinks at a cocktail bar, though. :o)

[conflux.livejournal.com]

The pool party wouldn't work for me as I'm alergic to chlorine but all the rest sound very good. They do paintballing in the same place as slimelight I think.

[jhg.livejournal.com]

Swimming! Yay!


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[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

I imagine most of my extended household will want to come to at least one of your series of events (if invited of course), so an event we could bring the kids to would be great. I can usually also get someone to babysit for a play party, since not all of my household tend to go to those.

Paintballing is not my cup of tea, but I would try to come to any of the others. Swimming or zoo would both work well for the kids, and some of the others (party, meal out, museum, London Eye) could work too depending on choice of venue, time of day etc. B might like to come on a theatre trip, depending on the play.

[djm4]

You can't do afternoon and evening of Sat 14, by the way, because we're going to see His Dark Materials part 1 with my parents.

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

Ah! For some reason I had that down as the 13th, which doesn't actually make sense now I come to think about it. Will go and amend the poll, thanks.