Christmas Day birthday party Hell!!!!

[OnZephyrstDayofXmas]

DD will be 4 on xmas day. This is the first year we arew doing a party for her. We've booked the place for 17th Dec and already 6 of her friends have had to drop out due to 'xmas' or 'family' It's turning into a nightmare and this is only the first one!!!!

Any ideas for ways around it??

Could you ask some of your friends to the party as well for christmas drinks to add to the numbers a bit.

My friend's little one has the same issue and they've now taken to giving her presents etc on her actual birthday but having the party mid year (usually around June) and calling it her 3 1/2 birthday!

Sorry, that doesn't help you out much at the moment though, does it? Have you exhausted list of freinds? Are there any family members with children you could invite?

We've gone through a list of names that her pre school gave us of her friends so we'll have to go back and ask for 'extras' which I feel a bit bad about doing!!

We are new to the area so don't know anyone here and family are miles away altohugh hopefully will come - but that only adds an extra 5 year old.

Luckily the party is at a krazy kingdom so there will be other kids around when they get their play time.

It's just me feeling guilty for giving her3 such a difficult b'day that will never be straight forward!

Think for future years that grumpyfrumpy's idea might be good. There is usually a lot less going on after Christmas than before.

Do parties at the end of Jan when everything has gone all flat and boring and cold and it feels like nothing nice will ever happen again...

For this year - phone the dropped-out friends' parents and plead?

Dd2 is a Christmas Eve baby and we usually do her birthday parties in mid-January, although have opted for this weekend instead as baby is due mid-Jan. Christmas is so manic for everyone, even those people that don't have to factor in birthdays too, that it does get really difficult to fit in "extras" like birthday parties. Leaving it to January when everything suddenly stops seems to suit people better. Not much use to you this year, I know. I'd just go with it and let her enjoy the party with the people that can make it. Her birthday party is going to be fun for her regardless. I don't think that the children worry about these things half as much as we do!

Ds birthday is the 20th December and have found easier to arrange earlier in the month anything from the beginning of Decto about the 10th December before everyone starts running around like headless chickens.