
Dear Jake’s parents,
Firstly, I wanted to say thank you for allowing Jake* to come to celebrate my daughter’s birthday, she loved having all of her Kinder friends there to help her celebrate the big number five!
For her first big party, she sure knew how to wear that party hat, didn’t she? Well, actually you wouldn’t know because you weren’t there.
Jake’s mum, you came in with your four-year-old son at the start time, exactly 10am on the dot. You told me his dad would pick him up at the end, then you promptly turned around and left.
When this happened, I was already exhausted. I had spent my entire morning (and the night before) setting up for a party. I was decorating, making fairy bread, cutting up fruit and setting up games.
I was wrapping the exact number of layers of newspaper as children in attendance (31 to be exact) around small toys and lollies for pass the parcel. I was making party bags and filling the Dora the Explorer piñata.
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I was welcoming guests, making obligatory small talk, trying to get the party girl to be polite and thank everyone for their gifts as they awkwardly presented them to her. I was doing all the things the parent of a party kid does.