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Checklist for a simple birthday party

I have been so busy lately that even though I knew Master 3’s 3rd birthday was round the corner, I just simply had no time to plan for it! And guess what? This busy mummy only started to plan for the birthday party 3 days before the big day! It has kind of become a norm to me even though I do not like it last minute. Sometimes, I feel guilty that I have not been as conscientious as most other mummies who plan much in advance and take care of every aspect of the party many months before. Well, I am glad I did manage to put up a decent simple party in a short time anyway. No one would know that I had only planned 3 days before.

The following checklist is a mental checklist that I have mastered over the years with 3 kids. Ok, I am sure everyone has about the same list and I am going to share what I did for games, venue, ideas and resources.

Here it goes rolling:

3 days before madness

1. Guest List and invites

First the hub and I decided on a day, not that we have much choice anyway. Usually, we host birthday celebrations on Saturday nights. Then we decided on who to invite. This is easy as the list is usually our immediate families which totalled up to about 13 adults + 10 children. Lucky for us, all our guests were able to make it on the short notice, yet, again. I promise I would not do that again if I can help it, i.e. invitation at the last hour.

2. Party Venue

We hold parties mostly in our small house. However, after Master 8’s lovely and cosy birthday celebration with his classmates in our favourite yogurt cafe “Frozen – a thousand blessings“, I decided on the same venue since it is new to our guests. A second time lucky for us, the date we had chosen was still available to book. We love this place as the kids love the Frozen yogurt, not to mention that the venue is basically FREE with $120 for a 2 hour slot which included $120 worth of yogurt for our guests! The place is cosy for an Continue reading “Checklist for a simple birthday party”

Frozen Yogurt Birthday Party @ Toa Payoh

Frozen Birthday Party for my boy??

No, no. Not that Frozen disney princess show.

We have found a great place for a birthday party that comes with Frozen Organic Yogurt and you will never thought of where this gem is tucked in this neighbourhood – TOA PAYOH! Another great find in Toa Payoh after my post on the Petit Bateau shop in the same place.

This year, my boy turns 8. He had a small request to invite his close friends to his party and yet did not want to be stressed over who to play with if we invite them to our house party with his many cousins. So while I was cracking my brain to think of how to host 2 parties, one for the classmates and one for the family, the wonderful mummy network in his class gave me the idea of this Frozen yogurt cafe. He has a few close friends who happened to have their birthdays a couple of days apart from each other and within 2 weeks, 2 mothers and I decided to put up one birthday party for 3 kids. Combining the parties means that we do not have to party hop within the same weekend. Also, it helps to share out the stress of hosting a party and all 3 of us were happy that this was one of the most relaxed party we have ever hosted.

Frozen by A Thousand Blessing Singapore, the yogurt cafe is a 2 storey shophouse. While many yogurt cafes are springing up all over Singapore, not many of them sell organic yogurt. This is a Melbourne Continue reading “Frozen Yogurt Birthday Party @ Toa Payoh”

Having fun party at Fun@Giggles (+Giveaway!)

Fun@Giggles playground – courtesy of Fun@Giggles

YH has been invited to many birthday parties at this age. We were honoured to be invited including his siblings and us, parents to most of the parties. But to be invited to indoor playground parties, due to the more expensive cost and limited invitees, siblings are usually not invited and we perfectly understand. So when we turned up as Continue reading “Having fun party at Fun@Giggles (+Giveaway!)”