Space Birthday Party Ideas: How We Ran an Astronaut Training Camp for 14 Five-Year-Olds ($82 Total)
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My wife handed me the clipboard on a crisp Tuesday morning here in Denver. The mission was absolute. Our oldest son, Leo, was turning eight, but his social circle is a tangled, chaotic web of younger siblings. I stared at the guest list. Twenty-one kids. Age eight. Plus a swarm of their two-year-old siblings trailing…
My living room looked like a pixelated crime scene last March 12, 2025, when my nephew Leo turned four and decided he needed a blocky paradise in the middle of Austin. I had exactly ninety-one dollars to my name for decorations and snacks, a Frenchie named Barnaby who thinks anything round is a personal challenge,…
My living room looked like a Serengeti stampede hit a glitter factory. It was March 15, 2025, and my son Leo was turning two. Twenty-one toddlers were about to descend on my North Denver bungalow, and I had exactly $47 left in the party kitty after the cake deposit. My mission was specific: I needed…
My son Leo turned six on April 12th, and I spent three weeks obsessing over the structural integrity of a 16-ounce plastic vessel. Most parents just grab whatever has a checkered flag on it at the big-box store, but I’m the guy who reads the recycling codes on the bottom of containers before I let…
Thirty-one tiny humans stood between me and a glass of lukewarm lemonade on a Tuesday afternoon last May. My classroom in Houston felt like a sauna because the AC decided to quit during the final week of school. If you think teaching 20+ first-graders is hard, try doing it when the thermometer hits 95 degrees…
The humidity in Austin on April 5th was basically like being under the sea anyway, which felt oddly poetic as I sat on my living room floor surrounded by 400 googly eyes and a mountain of yellow kitchen sponges. My best friend Jen’s son, Leo, was turning 10, and he had specifically requested a “Bikini…