[~Mo+Moosh~]

DS1 has a mid January birthday. This is his first year at school. In the past we have always had his birthday party at the time of his birthday as it didn't really matter.

This year it will be school holidays and I'm not sure whether to still have his party at the time of his birthday and invite his school friends before school breaks up and just accept that some (maybe quite a few) won't be able to make it due to being away.

Or wait until school goes back in February and invite his friends then and have the party a week or two after school goes back.

What do you do?

[Morts!]

My DD's birthday is 22nd January and we always have her party during the holidays. We just post the invitations to her friends. It's a great excuse for a catch up with all her friends before school goes back a couple of weeks later.

My other DD's birthday is 3rd February (will be the day before school goes back) so we're probably going to hand out invitations on the first day of school and have her party the next weekend.

[catalyst]

Have his birthday on his birthday at that age I would say. Hand out invites before school finishes and maybe see if you can get contact numbers to re prompt closer to the time?

My son's birthday is always on a holiday, ANZAC day.. and often it occurs mid school holidays as well.

As he got older I gave him the choice of when he would prefer to have his party.

[peking homunculu...]

DS is Dec 29 and DD is Jan 13. We hold their parties one month early. Otherwise it is too much hassle for everyone. Works fine, they like the extended b'day and no one has ever questioned this approach.

[**Xena**]

My son has a birthday on the 30th of Dec- this is one of the crappiest days you can be born I have discovered as people are either still away for Christmas or going away for New Years!

We now hold a party for him at the end of Nov/start of Dec. If he had a late jan birthday I'd hold it in Feb

[sparassidae]

2 December birthdays here (21 and 23) and we have always done parties in early December or late November. This year we did one a couple of weeks ago and having one next Monday night (already on school holidays here so a midweek night party is fine).

For January I would wait until the new school year and have a party a couple of weeks into term.

[No girls here]

DS2 has a mid January birthday and we have always done parties during the holidays. There are always some kids that can't make it though.

This year is not a party year so he is allowed to do something with one friend, and his chosen friend is in Korea until the week school goes back, so we will be waiting until after the holidays.

[Maple Leaf]

DD is dec 19th. This year she was adamant about having her party as close to her actual birthday as possible. I warned her this may be a disaster and unfortunately it hasn't turned out well with so many of her friends being away and it just simply may not happen now at all. *I haven't filled her in on that yet, as I'm still trying to pull something magical out of my hat!*

Lesson learned though and I think she will listen to me about having it before the school year finishes next time! Poor thing.

[belindarama]

I am December 19 as well. It is a tricky time of year. DS1 is jan 4 and we are having his party tomorrow. I sent invites super early to give people time to plan, even so we have only a little over half coming.

This is his first year with lots of friends his own age and I wanted to make the most of it. I didn't want to do it when school goes back as classes will be a different makeup and I thought it might be hard for him to work out who to invite and coordinate it as soon as school goes back.

[2bundles]

DD is 16 Dec and we always celebrate on the day. It actually works out well because noone knows who got invited etc because they are not at school. Last year we had the whole class. They finish school end Nov, and yet about 20/25 still came to the party in mid Dec.

This year she is having a smaller event, but still only friend can't make it.