Birthday party presents - thank yous?

[lackofgravitas]

Having successfully (I think) winged my way through DD's third birthday party, held jointly with a friend, we now have a house full of presents, mostly still wrapped. Now, I'm wondering - when you have been given presents in person, and either you or your child (DD was too busy bouncing to personally greet ALL her guests) have said 'thank you' to either the parent or child giving (some of the guests were too busy rushing off to bounce to hand the presents over!) ... is it 'done' to send thank you notes, or have we done 'enough'? Complicating factor is that some of the presents became detached from their accompanying cards and we don't know who they're from ... but if thank yous are the way to go, I'm sure we can manage something.

I don't think I would expect a thank you note under the circumstances, but I'm not the most socially ept, and tend to get these things wrong.

you could always dash off a generic one on the computer and put a picture of your son blowing out the candles and say thanks for coming to my party and thank you for your lovely present. Hope you had fun sort of thing

I like thank you cards and always do them for every present ds receives, but iirc when we were growing up mum only made us do them for people we hadn't seen on the day. And she was VERY particular about what was and wasn't done

shoppingbags, that sounds sensible - I must actually REMEMBER to send thank-yous to the absent relatives (meant to after Christmas and it didn't happen ).

I will squirrel hana's suggestion away for a future year where I don't end up in charge of the cake AND the camera and therefore end up with no decent photos.

Everyone seems to send thank you cards round here. I don't - I haven't got time for all that malarky. Thanks are said in person, on the day or afterwards in the playground or whatever.

i print of a picture of dd on birthday and then handwrite a thank you for coming to my party and for my pressie.