No Show

Tyler's 7th Birthday has come and gone. When I plan for events like this, I get this kind of nervous and rushed feeling right before the big event. Did I clean the house well enough? Do I have enough cake/chips/punch? Do the kids look clean? Did I get all the flour off of my sweater? If you entertain on any bit of a regular basis, you know the drill! I rushed up until the moment his friends were supposed to come over. I pulled my hair neatly back into a tidy ponytail. We blew up a few extra balloons while we waited. And waited...

2:00 pm came and went. NOT ONE of his friends showed up. I was heartbroken. Maybe it was the time and effort that I went into collecting stuff for the perfect goody bags. Or possibly the huge household cleaning effort that we'd undertaken. No, it was the look on his face when I checked my watch and it was already 2:30. Such a letdown. And I had to try not to show it.

Instead I jumped on the Fandango bandwagon and looked up the new releases. Ahhhh Zathura would be just what we needed. Two adults, two children, and one baby-sitter later we were in the theater enjoying salty popcorn and Cokes. It worked. At least for him anyway.

I'm still peeved that no one took the time to R.S.V.P. When my boys get an invite, I am going to do my damnedest to make that courtesy phone call whether we will be in attendance or not. Now that I have been the Mom of the boy who got "stood up" if you will, I will not see another crushed spirit. If you Mommies and Daddies out there take one thing from my blog today, *R.S.V.P.!

*The most common meaning is the French "Repondez, s'il vous plait," which means "Respond, please." From Ask Yahoo!

I'll end with a pic of the Birthday Boy

and of course the link to vote for Tyler my "Computer Whiz." 2 days left to vote!

http://neighborhoodies.com/catalog/notw_vote.php