Reluctant Party Planner

Over the past 14 years and four children I have planned and run upwards of 20 children's birthday parties. The novelty has worn off. This is one of those not-fair-to-the-youngest-child things. Kiki had a mother who was thrilled to run a party for seven year olds. Patch has a mother who would rather not. This is how we arrived at 8:30 am on the day of the party and the only accomplished party task was "deliver invitations." I had five and a half hours to clean house and plan how to...