I Thought a First Birthday Would Be Easy My sister called me in January, panicking. “Liam turns one in six weeks and I have nothing planned.” I teach second grade — I have organized more birthday celebrations than I can count — so I said sure, I’ll help. How hard could a first birthday be?…
My son Owen has been obsessed with excavators since he was about two and a half. Not just casually interested — the kid would sit at our kitchen window for 45 minutes watching the neighbors get their driveway repaved. So when his 4th birthday came around last October, there was exactly one theme option. Construction….
My middle kid, Leo, turned 5 last October and told me — completely unprompted — that he wanted a “safari party with real animals.” Real animals. He was dead serious. I had three weeks and about 20 to work with. No real animals happened, obviously, but what we pulled off was honestly one of my…
