First birthday

He will be 1 years old on February 13th and there has been all this pressure from both my mother and mother in law to throw a huge party. 

"He's our only grandson, we want a big party!" (mom and MIL) 

"You HAVE to do it, I don't care, nope!" (My mom, lol) 

"I'm kinda shocked and can't understand why you guys don't want a party." (My MIL, lol) 

Because of that, we've been going back and forth and I keep leaving the final decision to Tahmeed.

 

"OK...Whatever you think, I'll do, I can't decide..." "Ok let's just do it..." "Maybe not.." "I dunno!" *insert sweating bullets emoticon*

Don't get me wrong, I love parties and I absolutely love planning but for some reason, both Tahmeed and I are just not interested in having a huge birthday blast. The guest list is at least 90 people, max 110, and since it's in the winter, we'd have to host at a restaurant or banquet hall and that requires a lot of $$$. We could have coughed up the dough but there are other things going on in our life that are > a birthday bash and require that cashmoneyflowwww. 

We finally decided we will stick to our original plan: intimate house party, with immediate family (i.e both sets of grandparents and aunts), which is max 8-9 people. Maybe in a few years we can have the big party, when he'll remember, and enjoy because he'll have friends his own age.

And I do have other plans for his birthday / week. I'd like to have a 1st birthday smash cake photo shoot (on the actual day) proceeded by the cute little party at home. We'll still get a nice cake, decorations, get dressed up, take pictures, give Noah some presents. 

I'll also be taking that week off, mostly, as my family will be in town and I'm more excited to hang out with them! Inshallah. 

Who knows, maybe we'll change our mind again.