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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a New Year's Eve baby.  I never found a good time to have a birthday party.  If you try before the holidays, then you lose people because they're busy.  After the holidays, the weather is always a factor in this area.  We decided for us that birthday celebrations would be just our family and that we'd do special things - like a day at an indoor water park, learning archery, things like that.  And always a restaurant dinner at the birthday kid's choice restaurant.  [/quote]

My friends have a New Years Eve baby and her birthday parties were very popular and well attended. She always had a sleepover and a big New Years Eve theme. Parents loved dropping their girls off for the whole night and they would often go to their own parties or dinner as a couple instead. It was basically babysitting on the hardest night of the year to get a babysitter.

OP I think you should do a mid January birthday party. I know what you mean about being burnt out though. My dh is a January 2nd baby and I am SO burnt out by the time his birthday rolls around. I can't imagine if it were my kid. We did IVF and we actively stopped treatments to avoid the months of December and January.[/quote]

My son was not a sleepover kind of kid.  But I can see how it would be well attended if that were your child's thing.  We did have New Year's parties every year and a few kids in our group had New Year's eve and New Year's Day birthdays (four to be exact), so there was always cake.  But it definitely wasn't a birthday party for any of the kids.  [/quote]

My 1st grade DD went to a birthday party (drop off, not sleepover) on January 3rd this year.   Honestly it was like an unexpected godsend - she was so sick of lazing around the house at that point that it seemed extra fun to her and perked her up.  I think they got a few more "no's" due to travel than they would have had the party been a few weeks later, but it was still a lovely sized group and seemed like a blast.  [/quote]

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