Know I'm being unreasonable, but would you do the same?

[freakyzebra]

DS is having a (6th) birthday party next month. There are 3 boys that DS is very friendly with and would choose to invite... but I don't want to. Because they all had their own "big" birthday parties in the last 9 months but did not invite DS (they also came to DS's party last year). I don't know why DS wasn't invited to their parties.

DH says, he's probably right, I should invite whoever DS wants to his party. But I just don't think I can bring myself to give those boys (2 of whom are otherwise quite nice lads) an invite.

I doubt very much that DS will notice on the day if they aren't there.

Just wondered if anybody else would feel/do the same as me!? Or do you all rise above petty resentments...

Nobody would ever go to a party if you always had to go to one of theirs first! Parties wouldn't exist at all.

I agree with the comment about the presents you will get without forking out yourself.

Even I am not so mean with my money that I worry whether it's just the 2 or perhaps a few more presents that I have to buy each year.

And because only 2 of the children in DS's year group (out of 56 children) invited him along to their parties last year, it's kind of difficult to forget who they were (even with my scatty memory).

And yes, I do know for a fact that these 3 particular boys all had relatively "big" parties last year. One was running around the playground giving out invites (not to my DS). The mother of another (my next door neighbour) was telling me about her plans for it. Someone else was talking about the 3rd boy's party, how her child had a good time, etc.

The only real positive I can make out of it all is that least my DS isn't getting filled up with junk birthday party food every weekend.

lol, Custy.