CM Club - what do you do on your kids birthday's????

[looneytune]

I don't believe this, I'm so annoyed and upset. My ds turns 4 the week after next and dh has booked the day off. We talked about it and decided that I'd still work as we'll have the family day on the Saturday. Anyway, seems to be wires crossed as dh has a planned event on the Saturday and now we don't have a day where we can do the family thing as the Sunday is a kids birthday party.

What do I do?????

1. Try and get the day off for his actual birthday, groveling to the 2 girls mum as not the required 4 weeks notice?
2. Cancel going to the birthday party planned for the Sunday?
3. Have big row with dh and try and get him to cancel the Saturday event?

Feel really about this as we were going to have a party and it didn't happen in the end (other parents from nursery beat us to it and now parties on both days of weekend) and now this problem.

What shall I do?????

Will he be aware of the 'date'? Could you move it to the week before/after? DS1 is 3 in a couple of weeks, and DH will be away on the actual day, so I'm going to move his birthday by a few days, and let him think that's his birthday. He won't know the difference.

A bit of a problem for 2 reasons:

1. He goes to nursery every morning and they acknowledge birthday's and although normally I could have a word with them, another child there shares the same birthday and he knows that it's her birthday on the same day.

2. Dh has booked the day especially so will deffo want to do something with him.

talk to mindees mum surely she'll understand & be happy to help you out as i'm sure you do for her good luck if not can't you just do something special with mindees too ?

I dont work birthdays at all and i don't get paid for them either.

Can you have the afternoon off?

Think I will talk to their mum and ask Bit difficult to do something that he'd want to do with mindees as they are 12 weeks old and 19 months old and the sort of thing he'd want to do would make it hard to supervise them all properly. Just remembered dh would be there but still, I wouldn't be able to 'join in' so what would be the point? Ds would probably feel worse actually seeing mummy devoting her time to the other 2. Does that make sense?

Speak to the mum and asked if it is possible to change 1 of her working days (as you don't have these girls full time from what I remember).
I have some of my parents ask me if it's possible to change around kids birthday parties.

I prefer to do parties as close to birthday as possible but my own kids have sometimes had a party with friends on a weekend and family invited around on the evening of their birthday. So they get two days of fun, games & present opening!

I know of 2 families whose children have december birthdays but have their parties in August!

have put in a days hol (1/2 pay) on both mine and dd's birthday, for dd we always go to fun park on her birthday with sil, bil and niece, so its tradition and this year we are going out for day on mine then night out a week later(when been paid)
we've just changed our sumemr hol to one week instead of two so they cant complain!

my boys b/days are in the summer alway on hols for ds2 (going to spain this yr) and tend to gather a couple of friends together for ds1 and go to cinema etc on the nearest weekend day to his b/day

last year ds1 had a mini party with mindees with cake etc (which the mindees loved) and then his treat weekend a couple of days later

My ds has his birthday in the middle of August and I usually have a picnic or party (only done a party once and never again!!) early in Septemeber when his friends are back from their Summer hols. He was 4 last Summer and was very understanding about waiting 2 weeks for his party!!

My own children go out on the razzle and get absolutely bladdered. It does not require me to take any time off work.

All sorted, mindee's mum has confirmed it's no problem for me to have the day off at shorter notice - must really thank her when I see her (was on email, on way back from Skiing)

great!..hope your day off is fab

Glad it's all sorted loonytune and hope your son has a lovely birthday in a couple of weeks.

Cheers, yes it should be a nice day now I'll be able to set his pc (if I've finished it by then ) in his room whilst he's at nursery and put a big bow round it Looks like he wants to go to town for his birthday, not soft play, swimming etc - strange boy!