Shelby had a great time at her party, and most of my fears were fortunately not fulfilled. First, I thought I would be late to Shelby's party after rushing across town from Darby's ballgame. I did make it just in time, however.
Another fear I had was low attendance. Historically Shelby's birthday party has fallen on bad weekends, either during Labor Day or on the Saturday of the first OU game, so attendance hasn't been great (i.e. just a few kids). This year there were ten kids, and that's after several not attending due to unavoidable conflicts (two missed because of ballgames, three pulled out last minute because of parental custody changes, and one missed because of a cheer camp).
I thought surely costs would skyrocket because of the type of place we used (Incredible Pizza), but they ended up being fairly in-line with the last few years of parties.
Lastly, I figured the kids would be difficult to manage in the party room, given the buffet style meal arrangements, and the proximity to all the fun and games. While we had our share of incidents (i.e. Shelby's acquisition of extraneous, unconsumed food items), I never really felt stressed-out by any of it, and only a couple times did I have kids ask when they could play games.
Overall, I felt it went pretty well, and I know Shelby enjoyed herself, because she has already said she wanted to have her party at the same place next year.
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