The
internet is a wonderful thing. It allows
me to do research in my pajamas on my couch.
It allows me to stay in contact with family and friends who live far
without having to wait for a letter to arrive in my mailbox. It allows me to look up medical symptoms and
remedies so that this paranoid mom doesn’t run to Urgent Care when my little
guy scrapes his knee. (Ok I’m not that
bad but close. And I know every doctor
is now cringing at the thought of me self-diagnosing from the internet.)
However,
I am convinced that the internet will be the death of me. First you have to understand my
personality. I am a crafter at heart and
a procrastinator in practice. This is a
deadly combination that the internet just intensifies. You see, I can Google any craft topic and
find about a thousand blog posts where bloggers who are better at crafts than
me have already successfully completed that craft project. Not only have they completed the craft
project, but they have done it better than I could do it, they have taken
beautiful pictures of the process and have found the time to blog about
it. I can’t compare to that!
And
this brings me to the months of July and August which have been rough on me for
the last 4 years now. My son’s birthday
is in August and he just turned 4 which means 4 birthday parties. 4 chances for the internet to be the death of
me. 4 chances for me to spend copious
amounts of time scouring the world wide web for ideas. 4 chances for me to have an unrealistic vision
in my head based on all the beautiful, amazing, creative parties out there on
the internet. And something always falls
short (usually the lack of balloons – I love balloons and we never seem to have
enough time in the setup!)
I
was sort of dreading this year’s party more than usual because we had decided
to have a superhero party. To say my son
loves superheroes is like saying that I love chocolate. Understatement. I felt the pressure even more to make it
awesome. And it didn’t help the pressure
that this year my son had an opinion. He
chose his invitation on Etsy from the wonderful Patty Cake Press. He didn’t like the picture I picked for the
invitation so we had him chose a different one and he was right that it looked
better. (Who knew I needed to ask him
first??) He saw me looking at superhero
cakes on Pinterest and spent the next 20 minutes telling me exactly what he
wanted for his cake. A four tier masterpiece highlighting multiple
superheroes with some adjustments to the Spiderman tier based on another cake. Damn you internet! (Yes, it is my own fault for showing him the
cakes on Pinterest, but we won’t talk about that!)
I
look at all that these women bloggers accomplish with their parties and I am
blown away, very intimidated by their creativity and in awe of their time management
as most of them are stay-at-home moms.
(How do they find the time????)
This
party took weeks of planning, purchasing, creating, ironing, hemming, baking, decorating,
printing, gluing, and freezing. It was a
lot of work but it was wonderful. And we
had balloons!! Success!
Internet,
I bested you this year!
(Now
I need a nap!)
(P.S.
I will do a post with pictures from the party once I regain some energy.)
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