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Planning a 6-Year-Old’s Birthday Party

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No time to type…

Tuesday is Jackson’s sixth birthday!!! I can’t believe in a few hours, I will have a six year old!

And birthdays mean tackling!

We just got in at midnight Sunday night from our vacation and so we are in full tackle mode to get unpacked and ready for the big day. We had left just after Christmas so our tree and all of decorations were still up when we arrived home. So today not only do we have to unpack, but we need to take down the tree, etc.

And as usual, my kitchen table/desk needs to be tackled. I need to use it as a table tomorrow!

So the to do list is:

  • go to dollar store
  • go to grocery store
  • order cake (we are having ice cream cake!)
  • take down tree and put away decorations
  • tidy house
  • prepare loot bags
  • tackle kitchen table

So far only the first three tasks are done. And the tree is down, but the boxes are still out.

What are the birthday plans?

We start off with cupcakes for his class at school. (We will make those in the morning – Jackson is in afternoon kindergarten.)

Then after school we will head to Laser Tag with five of his friends. After a couple games, we will come back to our house and have dinner and cake.

BUT – I am not finished yet! No – I am a crazy mother who has planned TWO parties.

The second celebration will be at the local recreation center on Sunday afternoon. To that party, I have invited the boys in Jackson’s class and his cousins.

(If you are wondering why I am so nuts as to go through birthday stress twice, I did it because Jackson desperately wanted to have a laser tag birthday party, but we also wanted to include his school friends and cousins. Most of those moms thought that their kids wouldn’t be quite old enough to play Laser Tag, so we are having two separate events. Yes – I am crazy. But at the time it seemed like a good solution.)

Oh – and did I mention that Olivia is in super fuss mode tonight? I think she might be getting a cold. Good grief – this is going to be interesting.

I will post a picture for Wordless Wednesday (or maybe I will do a whole birthday photo post.) We will see if I get any good shots.

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  1. Hope you guys stop by the inn and see what we’re tackling. 🙂 Is there a Tackle it Tuesday blogroll we could be added to ??

    thanx
    gp in montana

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  3. Speaking of birthdays I forgot until 9am this morning that I was supposed to bake a birthday cake for my daughter’s teacher whose birthday was today. My morning tackle was to throw together a cake (in no cake mix land) and get it to school in less than 3 hours. Check out my post for pictures and recipes.

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  5. my daughter just had her 2nd birthday last week. We didn’t do a party but it is stressful none the less!

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  7. I am currently planning a birthday party too, my olivia will be ten next week. This will be her first sleepover birthday party. hope I get my tackle its done today!

    shelley

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  9. It’s been several months since I did a tackle b/c I’ve been so busy. But I’m back. Hopefully I can get back to participating more regularly. I know my house needs it!

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  11. Happy Birthday! That’s very exciting! This will be our first year of NOT taking birthday treats in to school and I find that to be very sad.

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  14. Oh, Happy Birthday to Jackson! And I hope his day and his parties go wonderfully. Happy tackling! 🙂

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  15. Hi Sweetie, Six is a big chane read up your son will be changing a bit in development and it is a wonderful time. Dash will be seven in March. Oh your in for a joy!

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  17. Happy 6th Birthday Jackson!
    That’s a wonderful Tuesday Tackle – celebrating such a sweet little boy 🙂

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  18. Well…Happy Birthday to Jackson!

    Yesterday was another “birthday”……Kristen’s twins were delivered by C-section and you can see the beautiful photos of these little girls (born at 33 weeks)…..at Grandma Dawn’s. Yeah—God…He is so faithful in HIs care! They are doing well…and look simply wonderful!

    Diane

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  19. Birthday parties are such a part of a mom’s crazed lunacy of a life…that kinda stinks though that you have to do it so soon after Christmas. I hope that you guys have a great time though, even though it’s crazy…it always ends up being soo much fun!

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  23. Wow, you sure are busy! Hope all the birthday preparations and parties go well! After many weeks away I’m jumping back into Tackle it Tuesday. We are doing a major tackle on our basement. This week we tackled one corner “room” down there.

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  25. I have 2 bdays coming for the boys January 29 and Feb 9. We have them together for now. Tanner is having a hot wheels party this year, just family! Camdn will be 7, and we are just going to take cupcakes to each childs class so Last year we did bowling for both boys and it s 200 dollars for 2 hours, pizza, drinks, rock n roll bowling, it was worth it, but noisy!

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  29. Sounds great! My sister’s bday is January 11, and there were a couple of years that the tree was still up LOL.

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  31. Birthdays are sweet. My aunt used to have 2 birthdays for my younger cousin. Later on she never understood why she wasn’t having the “other birthday” as she grew older.

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