Birthday party around 10 am on a Sunday morning.

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One of my friends invited me to their child's birthday party at 10am on Sunday. AIBU if I refuse to go? What you would have done assuming reaching the venue takes 1 hour. And you have school going kids who need a break on Sunday?

School run? 2 tube changes with 2 small children? Sod that.

But you do sound like a miserable old trout.

you wanna party only when it's sunny? What happens if Yiu have a birthday in between October and February? Bound to be pissing it down?

It's the journey that sounds more of the problem than the time

If you choose to live in a city, that’s a pretty normal journey. No biggie. (I really miss living in London, especially on a Sunday)

It's when I did my 2 year olds birthday, play for 2 hours, lunch at 12, home for the kids naps by 1pm then everyone still gets their family time in the PM.

I thought I was being thoughtful

You seem to be taking this very personally. They invited you to a party, it’s generally considered a nice thing to do. If it’s not convenient for you then decline, it really is that simple. I’m sure they won’t lose any sleep over it.
Plus they have no control over the weather! What a weird comment to make.

Our kids wake us up early so would have no problem getting there at 10

10am on a Sunday is the perfect time to have a kids party. The venue won’t be too busy and everything will be wrapped up by 12noon so you have the rest of the day, instead of hanging around until the afternoon .

The timing really annoyed me.

Jesus, grow up! Just politely decline if you can't face it. You don't have to make a big song and dance about it!

I host kids parties occasionally and 10am on a Sunday is the cheapest time to do it. It's already expensive but a lot more after lunch on any day of week especially a weekend.
If you don't want to go, don't. They've offered a nice morning for your kids, take it or leave it!

Completely normal time for a party.

10am is quite a good time for a party, because then when it’s over and done with, there’s still plenty of time for family stuff in the afternoon.

If I declined a 10am party, it would be because it clashed with prior commitments or because my children didn’t like the party theme, not because of the time.

We did decide against a Sunday 10am party for DS1’s last birthday (he had a Sunday afternoon party instead), but this was because half the boys in his class are in a local football club that tends to schedule matches on Sunday mornings, not because we thought parents would prefer a lazy morning.

We used to book a lot of early parties, to get exclusive use etc, most mums with young kids are up early so the time was convenient for them, who lays in with young kids? It never happened in my house anyway 😂

Had it been lunch time with the weather changing to little sunny I would have gone.

Haha how ridiculous.

10 is perfect as the kids get fed lunch and you can go home around 1. You have the rest of the day to your self. If you really cannot be bothered because its a long journey and you don't have a car then decline the invitation. I regularly take my children to a class every Sunday for 10, but it's only 20 minutes away.

I think it's fine. Good in fact as it doesn't eat in to the day. I have been to plenty of 10-12 parties at weekends and think we had one ourselves in fact when ds was 2.

My kids parties are often on Sunday around 10am. My husband works Saturday and so I obviously want him there so choose the Sunday. I choose 10 am as then everyone has the rest of the day to do things, get jobs done or chill

My dds party’s have always been 10-12 on a Sunday. Didn’t realise this was a problem to come people. The way I seen it was if it was soft play it was quiet and the children get fed lunch then they still have the rest of the day.

Don't go. Or suck it up and go.

We had our DC’s party at 10am as that’s the time the venue held parties. Everyone came, it was great. DC have played for two hours and they’re fed by lunchtime.

Decline if you don’t want to go, although if it’s today and you’ve already accepted then YABU. And I’m not sure there’s much they can do about the weather.

I have never heard of a birthday party or any party starting at 10am?? Am with the OP on this one. It's tough enough in the middle of winter dragging yourself and your kids out of bed and trying to beat the clock by having everyone at school and yourself at work without having to do likewise on a Sunday morning. It would annoy me too and I would politely decline. Also think some of the harsh comments directed at the OP are a little unfair and downright nasty.

My friend did her dcs birthday at 10am on a weekend...I went but I wasn't happy!

Then that’s fine Babysgotyoureyes, everyone is within their rights to politely decline an invitation that isn’t convenient to them.
I think posting on MN about it ‘annoying’ her, and her long travel time, and the poor weather is odd though. The people hosting the party have not done any of this to ‘annoy’ the OP. They have merely (kindly) invited her to a party they are hosting.

Drama llama

I've got a toddler so by 10am we've all been up and about for 3 hours at least. He has a 2 hour nap at 12pm so we can't go to things at lunchtime.
If you don't want to go then just say that. The timing isn't ridiculous though (in fact I prefer a 9am activity these days )

The party started at 8 in our house at 8 this morning! Visitors staying the weekend - aged 8, 5 and 2!

You just don’t want to go that much and can’t be bothered with the effort. Nothing inherently wrong with that but you need to own this. They haven’t done anything wrong! You have just decided you don’t fancy going. Politely decline but don’t be a pain about it. It’s a perfectly reasonable time for a kids birthday party.