Space Birthday Party Ideas: How We Ran an Astronaut Training Camp for 14 Five-Year-Olds ($82 Total)
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I am standing in my kitchen staring at a mountain of plastic coconut cups, wondering why I ever agreed to host eleven 11-year-olds in my house. The floor is sticky. My dog is hiding under the sofa. The real crisis actually hit about three days before the party when I was standing in the aisle…
I am still finding iridescent glitter in the floor vents of our suburban Portland home three years after Maya’s fifth birthday. It is a sparkly reminder of a very expensive mistake. One rainy Tuesday last October, I sat on my kitchen floor staring at a Pinterest board, obsessing over how much does a fairy party…
Last April, my living room in Denver transformed into a literal jungle, and not just because my son Leo decided his second birthday was the perfect time to practice his ‘apex predator’ crawl through the snack table. We had seventeen toddlers, a dozen sleep-deprived parents, and a soundscape that would make a jet engine look…
Snow was piling up against the window of our little bungalow in Albany Park on March 12, 2024. My twins, Aarav and Ishani, were turning three, and the living room looked like a rainbow exploded in a craft store. I was sitting on the hardwood floor, surrounded by piles of tiny treasures, trying to assemble…
I sat in my Denver living room on a Tuesday afternoon, staring at a pile of primary-colored plastic bricks and wondering why on earth I agreed to host a “Master Builder” gala for sixteen people. Half of them were eleven-year-olds; the other half were their parents who secretly still have vintage space sets in their…
The October wind was howling through the Douglas firs in our backyard in Beaverton, and I was currently three inches deep in silver glitter and blue frosting. My middle son, Leo, had just turned seven, and his “Galactic Supernova” party was approximately two hours from starting. I had seventeen second-graders coming over, but my biggest…