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[quote=Anonymous]We live in a lovely neighborhood with a beautiful playground.  On pretty much a daily basis, all of the SAHMs on our street (and neighboring street) and our kids (ranging in age from infants to about 5 years) casually meet at the playground.  We chat while kids play.  On any given day, you can find at least two or three of us moms there. Anyway, last weekend, I go down there with my 3 yr old to see everyone in the group there (minus one other family aside from me) having a birthday party on the playground for one of the kids in the group. I felt sad when I noticed that everyone else in the "group" (again, minus one other) was there. Would you feel hurt by this?  I feel like, if you're going to have a party in the neighborhood hang-out spot, wouldn't you invite all of the neighbors (especially when there's a high likelihood that the neighbors are going to show up at the playground around the time of your party anyway, since that's what we all normally do?). I don't know why we weren't invited.  We're nice people (I think?!), I get along well with this mother and all of the other mothers...the only thing I can think of is that my child does her own thing on the playground - kind of a quiet kid who plays by herself a lot...but then again, at least one of the other kids in attendance is like that too.  Then I thought that maybe it was the age difference (birthday kid turned 4, mine is 3), but there were other 3 yr olds there, and also 5 yr olds.

My child didn't even really notice (just focused in on the playground and started playing)...I'm just a little sad, and it did sting to discover that we were not included for the party.  I'm not angry - for my child's birthday, I was planning to invite everyone from the 'hood (and I still will).  I guess my feelings are a little hurt.  I suppose I am just venting here.  Would you feel a bit sad if this happened to you?[/quote]

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