Marcus turned 8 on April 4th last year. The original Minecraft Movie release date was floating around as “Spring 2025” and I didn’t think anything of it. Then the trailer dropped and I realized: the movie opens on my kid’s birthday. My first thought was to get tickets. Eleven eight-year-olds in a theater at noon….
# Last-Minute Easter Birthday? The 2-4 PM Sunday Window System ($68 Breakdown) My son’s birthday fell on Easter weekend three years ago, and I learned a lesson that I still talk about in my mom groups. I tried to do a Saturday “normal” party, and only 4 kids out of 12 showed up. Why? Because…
Marcus turned 8 on April 4th last year. The original Minecraft Movie release date was floating around as “Spring 2025” and I didn’t think anything of it. Then the trailer dropped and I realized: the movie opens on my kid’s birthday. My first thought was to get tickets. Eleven eight-year-olds in a theater at noon….
Marcus turned seven this morning. He announced at breakfast that today was the one day he was legally allowed to lie, and then told me breakfast was canceled. He is seven. We’ve done April Fools birthdays for seven years. This year he wanted a real prank party — not a birthday party that happened to…
My Son’s Birthday Is April 5th. Here’s the Last-Minute Easter Birthday Combo That Actually Worked. Three days out. Easter is Sunday. My son turns 8 on Sunday. I’ve been doing this for four years now — four years of “you can’t have a birthday party on Easter weekend, nobody comes.” The first year, I sent…
For six years, I watched my daughter’s birthday disappear into spreadsheets. April 15th. Every single year, my husband would spend the week before either hunched over our taxes or in a low-grade panic about not doing them yet. The year she turned five, he literally left her birthday dinner early to fax something to an…
Last spring, my corgi Biscuit turned four. I ordered what I thought was a cute birthday hat from Amazon — it arrived, it was fine, and she had it off her head in under thirty seconds. The glitter went everywhere. My carpet still has a faint shimmer. So this year I actually did the homework….
Minecraft Movie opens Friday. Here is our 64 dollar watch party plan with 11 kids, including the hat station that started everything.
He’s been talking about this movie since October. The Minecraft Movie. Opening night, April 4th. He had a plan, a group text, and opinions about which seats in the theater had the best sight lines. At 7:43 AM on a Monday, he opened the app. Checked the showtimes. Checked again. Texted me: “the good seats…
My son checked the app at 7:43 AM on Monday. “Mom. They’re sold out.” He meant the 6 PM Friday showing at our theater. Twelve of his friends had been texting about this movie since January. Group chat with the planning moji. The whole thing. I told him we’d figure it out. He looked at…
