spin off of a spin off: are we just partying fools? how many

[mama2mygirl]

parties or events do you and your family go to each week?
I don't think of us as social. We homeschool and we go to a small church. We don't live near family but we have friends and our dd has friends.
My complaint in the other thread was that suddenly at every party, the kids are being given two cupcakes or pieces of cake. When did this start???
That's been settled but, it turns out that we are partying freaks. This week we had one graduation party. A young woman at our church is graduating high school and we all love her. She is dd1's "favorite big girl." We had cake there. Then we had cake the next day because our church honored all the Sunday School Teachers and the head of children's ministry stepped down. More cake. It was a lovely celebration. We don't have anything else until a birthday party in a couple days.
Most weeks are like that. DD1 will either have a party or someone in her Girl Scout Troup or one of the two homeschooling groups will bring birthday cupcakes. Someone is church will have a birthday and after the service we have cake and coffee.
Next week she'll probably have a cast party for a performance that she's in and then a bar-b-que where there will be cake, I'm sure.
We apparently live in a cake lovin' town.
But seriously, how many events to people with school age kids go to?
I really don't consider us social. We are actually pretty shy. DH and I are shy. DD1 is outgoing as anything.

[Jaxinator]

3 events this week alone!


We love get-togethers

[Joyster]

A lot of my son's friends are winter babies, so starting from October, there's an event every weekend, including two parties for my own.

Although this summer is shaping up pretty crazy. My mother is turning 70, so there are a couple of parties in her honour. Plus the usual inlaws family BBQ, plus getting together with friends in all the spaces in between.

That said, at all the kids parties I've been to, the kids are usually so preoccupied with each other it's a challenge to get them to eat one slice of cake.

[AbbieB]

We homeschool too.

DD has a weekly ice skating lesson that includes free skating before and after. it's a homeschool class so it's the same group of kids every week and it's pretty social. Everyone brings their own snacks. The toddler set will usually end up sharing their graham crackers, pretzels, grapes, goldfish, etc... The kids don't share the yogurt, salad or veggies that are typically part of the snack. For the last lesson until the fall DD and I baked chocolate chip cookies and shared with everybody (coaches, staff, kids, siblings, parents). Throughout the year of lessons maybe 2 times another family brought in sweet treats to share with everybody.

During the summer we are going to the local public pool for "itty bitty splash time". it's 3 times a week but we limit it to 1 or 2 times a week. Not a whole lot of food sharing going on. There are 3 scheduled days where the hour long session is extended and there will be snacks provided by the pool, usually a caprison drink and a rice crispy energy bar type thing. DD is allowed the drink but we skip the gross snack and eat our apples or bananas.

Occasionally we go to story time at the library (the environment can be a bit over whelming for my DD so we no longer go regularly.) It's a once a week thing. There is a great playground in the same municipal complex as the library so we usually hit that afterward.

The rest of our time is spent playing in the back yard or with neighbors, going to the park, zoo, aquarium, Busch Gardens and all of the errands that all families do to keep the family going.

[Alyantavid]

June is always a crazy month for us, but normally, we don't have that many events. Maybe once a month?

[Daffodil]

Parties or party-like events are a rare thing for us - just a few times a year.

[limabean]

This time of year is busier, with end-of-school parties and the like, but I'd say on average we go to maybe 2 parties a month.

It's hard to say, though -- if things like backyard barbecues count, it's much more frequently, especially in the summertime, but we tend to serve things like fruit skewers for dessert at those, so sweet consumption isn't an issue.

[annethcz]

Those types of events are pretty frequent in our world- probably once a week or so. It seems there's always a party or get-together going on somewhere. We also host a fair number of parties. I don't always include sweets on the menu, but if we host a pot-luck, it's inevitable that someone will bring sweets of some sort (smores are pretty popular items these days).

[mrspineau]

I'm a stay at home mom, and I find there is really no activities around here. except the family swim at the pool where to go to once or twice a week, and going to the park. But there are no playgroups that I know of, though I would absolutely LOVE to go to one. I have thought about organizing one, but I guess I'm not really sure how to start, nor am I really that outgoing a person to do it. I think lots of activities sound great!

[waiting2bemommy]

We used to not do much but ds is really craving social interaction so we've stepped it up. Plus, it helps my mental state to get out of the house, and the house stays cleaner lol.

Our summer schedule is going to be: Aquarium tues or thurs (or both, they have different toddler events each tuesday and thursday). reading bus every other wednesday. free movie at the library on Monday. Fridays there is a family storytime at the book store in the evening. So, 3-4 mornings out a week, friday family activity in the evening, and then the beach or something else fun on saturday. On Sundays and Thursday nights we also attend our Bible meetings. that doesn't include various special events. I think so far this month we're planning on going to a reptile show, a balloon art thing and a couple arts and crafts days all sponsored for free at the library. We also have a big convention (sort of like most people's church, but all day) for three days in July, and that's a pretty social thing, eating together and talking and so forth.

I don't think of us as partying fools though lol. Now, a night withOUT kids, that would be a party!