Pinterest Protest
Pinterest is making us all crazy. "30 days to teaching your 3 year old fluent French," "21 days to sculpted triceps," "How to make your home look like Joanna Gaines." It's like a magazine cover that never ends. So when it came to planning the boys' first real birthday party, of course I went straight to Pinterest. I agonized over a theme. Where The Wild Things Are? Where can I get a wolf suite for a one year old? Maybe he would like trains better? Or construction equipment? Is $75 too much to pay for a birthday cake? How many people should we invite? If I invited all the kids we know that would be about 45 people... too many? Don't they need matching birthday shirts? S T O P the madness. Have mercy. Listen girls, this is nuts. They are kids. My children got $700 worth of toys for Christmas, and that's a conservative estimate. Guess what their favorite toys are today? The nose sucker we got when they were born, a tiny w