We had them up to 18 I would say - sm
Posted By: Laura E. on 2009-03-17
In Reply to: When do you stop inviting family over to sm - luvmyboys
But not a whole crew of relatives, just our family. My mom would make a cake or pie or whatever the Birthday person wanted (my dad always got a banana cream pie). My mom would make my brother's and I a cake unless something else was requested. I grew up with no relatives close. We were in PA near Philly and my one set of grandparents/cousins were in Cleveland, OH, and my other set of grandparents were in Florida, so rarely saw any of them. But our immediate family always celebrated birthdays with a nice dinner at home (usually, went out sometimes), cake and gifts. I would tell MIL to stow it, and just keep doing what you are doing, invite her anyway and if she choses not to come then fine or if you want to tone it down just celebrate it with your husband and sons. Another option is to ask your children what they want, they may hate having a whole slew of people over that they have to be nice to for several hours. My just turned 9-y/o did not want her grandparents here when we had our family celebration (2 days early as my DH was going out of town for the week). She was having dinner out at Red Lobster and only wanted her mom, dad and sister there. So fine, I told them not to come that weekend as we had a lot going on (very true) and they came this last weekend instead and they took her out to Brunch for her birthday which she enjoyed. Her uncle brought a cake for her and her grandfather, whose birthday is 8 days before hers. We are very low key here but it gets celebrated just not a big blowout or lots of people, but that is what I am used to, and again my immediate family is spread out everywhere, DE, VA, NY and PA, and in-laws in MD. But we have done the birthdays here, at my in-laws and my parent's house once (my parent's would never make it to the actual day so one time I made it there for one of my daughter's birthdays, for once my whole family was there all 9 of them) which I am glad I was able to do before my mom died.
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