Nope. We saw my parents masked for Christmas, just two households joining for all of three hours to keep my parents' sanity. We will likely not see them indoors again until April. I certainly would not attend an indoor party.

Anonymous wrote:You people are crazy. No joke. DMV is full of paranoid cowards. Get out of that bubble to see that the rest of the country is living normal again. If not for you then do it for your Kids.

What part of the "rest of the country" do you want us to be like? Idaho where they're rationing care?

If my choices are to "live like normal" except with a mask and no preschool birthday parties, or "live like normal" except without grandma or the promise that there will be medical care if I need it, I'll take the former.

There is no "normal" now, you need to choose. Are you afraid of small pieces of fabric and disappointing your own child, or of losing members of our society?

If it were the kids he’s in school or daycare with anyway, and it was drop off, yes. What’s the difference?

No way. Kids do not need and should not expect a big class party each year. Enjoy a private party at home.

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. We have a fire pit in our backyard. We also have a large garage. Could potentially get a few space heaters for the garage. Maybe I could get a performer for the garage and hand out cupcakes to go.

No, no garage. No performer. Just stop

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Honestly, my kid would the thrilled if I told her her birthday party was s'mores and a campfire. As it was, her birthday this year was cupcakes at the playground with three friends, and she thought it was awesome because I got cupcake toppers she liked and both chocolate and vanilla cupcakes.

We have friends who did 4 girls at a pottery painting place, but we declined. We have gone to masked outdoor parties but my child is in preschool, so it was kids we'd already been exposed to.

Anonymous wrote:Wait, all this for a preschooler? Lady, if you don't tell her it's her birthday, she won't even know. Or she would be thrilled to play balloon volleyball and color in the bath with bath crayons.

You are nuts.

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Such desperation to be center of attention.

Anonymous wrote:You know, I have generally had very low opinions of the "DL forever" people who seem intent on destroying public education for a generation of kids but this thread is making me think that maybe they have a point. Are we really in a world where people like OP insist on having an indoor preschooler birthday party during a pandemic? People like OP are why millions of children will be permanently behind and we will have catastrophic educational loss. It's infuriating.

Give it a rest. Cases were way down over the summer and schools still didn't open in the DC region. There's never been a path to broad reopening that didn't pass through vaccinations first. Summer demonstrated that what families do has no impact on whether schools open.

Anonymous wrote:You people are crazy. No joke. DMV is full of paranoid cowards. Get out of that bubble to see that the rest of the country is living normal again. If not for you then do it for your Kids.

Obviously you don’t know how the rest of the country is doing. I’m in Wisconsin and attended two birthday car parades this week and our family Christmas was on Zoom.

Wait, all this for a preschooler? Lady, if you don't tell her it's her birthday, she won't even know. Or she would be thrilled to play balloon volleyball and color in the bath with bath crayons.

You are nuts.

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. We have a fire pit in our backyard. We also have a large garage. Could potentially get a few space heaters for the garage. Maybe I could get a performer for the garage and hand out cupcakes to go.

Do kids actually like performers?

I think the garage idea would be fine, I just wonder if that's actually something the kids would prefer doing over playground/bonfire/s'mores.

My daughter is preschool aged. I think everyone is assuming she is in elementary aged.

Ok. My question still stands: do you think your preschooler would actually want a performer versus a playground? I know where my two preschoolers stand on that issue, and it certainly isn't sitting in a garage watching a singer/magician/clown/etc.

I do not want to be in the cold longer than I need to. We, maybe I, do not want to go to the playground if it drops below 40s. This is why we have not been leaving the house for the past few days.

I would not want to sit in a garage listening to a performer. I do think my daughter and her friends would enjoy the performer. She loves live shows that are interactive.

FFS suck it up! This is literally an appalling reason for indoor socializing. Borrow some long underwear and endure the terrible terrible cold for 60 whole entire minutes. I would RSVP no to your party because we are going skiing.

The irony of this response is that most people want to go skiing right now. It is the only thing to do right now is ski.

We would have gone skiing but we chose seeing grandparents for Christmas. We quarantined before seeing them.

We thought going to a ski resort/mountain where everyone else was going was high risk. Everyone has a different opinion of risk. We plan to also go skiing after being fed up stuck indoors but don’t act all holier than thou about it.

We are going cross-country skiing in a state park. We have our own skis and we stay at an on-trail airbnb. So not "everyone else" is going. We might see a total of 10 people, from a distance, the whole weekend.

The OP is being such a whiner about the weather. Seriously it's not so cold that you can't last an hour to keep everyone safe. Borrow some snowpants if you must.

This is exactly what we are doing now!

And it is the best! Cross-country skiing is so great with kids, and there is nothing like slipping into the woods for a quiet ski on your own as well. The perfect workout in peace and beauty.

Np here. I got a lot of crap for wanting to rent a beach house by ourselves. I’m glad skiing is deemed ok but the beach is selfish and not ok.

Go where other people aren’t. It’s not complicated.

Hahaha oh lord.

You people are crazy. No joke. DMV is full of paranoid cowards. Get out of that bubble to see that the rest of the country is living normal again. If not for you then do it for your Kids.

Nope.

FWIW, my kid had his 4th birthday in early Feb, so pre-covid. We had one of the top children's entertainers there. Kids loved it, but they loved playing on the playground outside way more. I definitely would do s playground party where you bring hot chocolate and cupcakes and can space kids apart

Anonymous wrote:DD’s birthday is coming up. Considering a small party. I’m not even sure what venues are having indoor parties. I can think of indoor mini golf or bowling, both activities our kids are not fond of. I would do a spa, tea or princess party but it doesn’t seem safe. Nature centers aren’t doing parties.

Would you let your child attend a masked indoor birthday party?

Any ideas?

Oh, FFS.

Op is your kid in daycare or preschool In person with these families Anyway? If so, I think it’s NBD and shouldn’t be a big deal to ask.