I'm feeling a little better.

She hasn't been invited to any parties of her kindy buddies which either means that she's very unpopular (that's not why I'm feeling better) or that her kindy mates don't really have "invite everyone from kindy" sorts of parties either.

I guess in my head I feel like we should be inviting all the kids she knows from kinder to our house.

Last year we took her to the zoo and met friends there plus she took a birthday cake to childcare plus we took her down to Melbourne to go to a joint birthday party of my old Mothers Group's kids. So essentially THREE celebrations but I still felt guilty because we didn't do the traditional birthday party at home gig.

I think I've come up with an idea. I'm going to ask the local playgroup if they hire out their room/playground for parties. There's toys and stuff indoors (if the weather's bad) and the outdoor playground is really good too. Then I'd just have to take food which is fine and DP and parents I know can do the bending stuff to tidy up.

Or I can stick with the non-party idea which is to take her to Melbourne (possibly with a friend), take her up the front of the train to watch dad drive (she's been asking to do this for ages), go and see Annie and stay in a hotel. Plus anything else I can think of.