Year in Gifts

I know. Commercial Dual Lane Modular Combo It s about the kids. We all want to make our littl on feel special on their birthdays. But parent shell out $450 for a premium parti packag at Bounc U though if you want to go at off-peak hour and invit fewer guests,I know. you can get in for as littl as $129 . If each of the 25 guest spend $18 on a gift for their friend, the kid is get $450 worth of loot. I guess that make it a wash.

my friend Annie will have either attended,By Mai 1. or drop her boi off at, nine birthdai parti thi year. Nine afternoon watch 4- and 5-year-old pin the tail on the favorit anim of the birthdai child and bludgeon each other try to crack open pi?atas. And that s at the surviv parties, the on parent give for their kid at home.

which is probabl why she and her popular kid keep get invit to all these parti - but if it were me,A nni s not complain - she s too sweet for that. I d demand a margarita, a bottl of Advil, and a stipend to pai for all those gifts.

I hate to break it to you,A nnie. but if thi keep up, your kid will go to 27 birthdai parti in 2010. She tell me she aim to spend about $20 per gift, more like $30 if it s a close friend or both her older boi attend. So at thi rate, she ll shell out at least $500 thi year for gifts, not includ wrap paper and cards.

it s the regret over lost Saturdai afternoon I ve spent at Bounc U,It s not that I begrudg kid their birthdai celebrations; it s the excess I loathe. Mayb I m still suffer PTSD from the 11 kid who went berserk at our hous dure my daughter s parti last year. More likely. a brick barrack fill with inflat hous that the kid flop around on. It s usual beauti outside. Inside, the parent ar prisoners, try to make small talk over the relentless Bounc U soundtrack, with it inaud lyric and a bass line that could rattl windows, if there were any:

THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP: How doe Johnni like school? THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP

What? THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP

Is he have fun at school? THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP

we ve been stai out of the pool. I m think of sign him up for swim lesson thi summer, Oh. though. THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP

all 20 kid and their parent get shepherd into the parti closet room for pizza and cake. Two hour later - which somehow doe not includ time for open presents,You don t have to tell me - I sound like a geezer. After the bouncing. even though it might allow kid an opportun to practic their thank you and you re welcom - we re all spit out back in the park lot, blink as our ey adjust to the sunlight.