I love Pinterest as much as the next person, but it should be said that sometimes Pinterest makes me feel like less of a person. With its perfectly decorated rooms, refurbished furniture, cleaning and organizing tips and recipes, I find myself wondering sometimes who are these ridiculous women that can actually do all of this? And I really feel like an epic failure when I comb Pinterest for birthday party ideas! When I decided on a Dr. Seuss theme party for Gavin, I started searching Pinterest and came up with some really great easy ideas, green eggs and ham deviled eggs, 1 fish 2 fish Swedish Fish and Thing 1 Thing 2 cupcakes to name a few! There of course were also ideas of Cat in the Hat layers cakes, hand made invites, and Seussical themed favors. Ideas that had I committed to doing I would have driven myself crazy and the hubs probably would have found me curled in the fetal position under our kitchen table repeating “I am Sam, Sam I am.” There are women that can pull the perfection off, and then there are women like me that said women shame into tears.
On top of Pinterest pressure, lets talk Facebook. Let’s talk that annoyingly perfect girl from college or high school that posts pictures of her child’s seemingly perfect birthday party. Streamers, balloons, and joyful children. Perfectly color coordinated, every picture perfect, every cupcake symmetrically iced to perfection…perfect, perfect, perfect, blah, blah, blah…PERFECT IS BORING!
Gavin's birthday party today was far from Pinterest perfect! We all have high hopes in the coordinating phase, but that ain’t real life! My hubs was late getting home from work this morning, setting us behind schedule for the 11:30 start! So this put a lot of the work on me and my saintly drop everything and help mother! Then we had issues with blowing a fuse with all the crap we had plugged in for the party. The highlight of the day though was the incredibly cranky toddler…It was his party and he certainly cried if he wanted to…A LOT! I kid you not the kid screamed when we put cake in front of him and refused to eat it! He wanted nothing to do with the house full of guests focusing all of their loving attention on him, couldn’t be bothered to open presents and said “NO” a whole heck of a lot. So needless to say, we didn’t get the obligatory, Facebook worthy pictures of cute, messy cake eating, mad present opening and smooching the grandparents. Nope folks, I got the picture of my face with a look of sheer confusion on it, holding a cupcake, with a toddler screaming, equal parts snot and tears running down his face next to me. Once upon a time, I too would have began crying, as the perfect birthday moment I imagined in my head didn’t exist, but two years as a mom has taught me not to sweat these very real moments. In fact, I love this year’s birthday cake picture. It happens, and it will be a hilarious story to tell when he’s 18! If every birthday, holiday and any day for that matter were perfect, how fun would that be? It wasn’t a perfect moment, but it was our moment and Pinterest ain’t got nothing on that!
PS to my fellow moms trying to create perfect themed birthday parties, when you get stressed remind yourself that
A. your kid probably won't even remember it, so go cheap and easy and just tell them it was amazing and themed out when their older!
B. They have yet to scientifically prove that kids who do not have perfect theme parties are more likely to turn to a life of crime, so relax!
Anybody else share this love/hate of Pinterest? Birthday party disasters? Come on folks, tell me I’m not alone!
-Meg
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