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10/30/2009
Three things that make me feel queasy
- From antiangie on Twitter: "I'm not sure what you should do with this, just telling you it exists."
- Jerry O'Connell is writing a memoir about parenthood. Its title: Cry, Feed, (Make Love to Wife), Burp. I for one can't wait to hear still more about how much he likes having sex with Rebecca Romijn.
- Number of Charlie's friends attending our party: One (1).
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Since Charlie is awesome, I refuse to believe that the guest list is a reflection of any personality deficits. Probably just everyone else was super-early. I'm one of those annoying people who plans a month in advance for things, which pisses off plenty of people who are related to me. You may use me as a convenient substitute for the people near you.
Then it's not an unattended party, it's a very elaborate play date, and will be FUN FUN FUN.
Well Charlie and his good friend are going to get SO MUCH CANDY then!! ANd have SUCH A BLAST with the one-on-one fun!!
Just wait until Monday, when that one kid tells everyone how awesome Charlie's party was...you'll feel better.
As to the other things making you queasy...I don't even know what to say.
Jerky parents...the good thing is that usually in preschool, it's the parents that notice bad turnouts, not the kids. Charlie and his buddy will have tons of fun, and hopefully you can "remind him" to tell everyone about how freaking great his party was at school on Monday, preferrably in front of all the other parents.
I'm constantly amazed at the number of people who don't RSVP. I'm sure someone will show up and be surprised at your surprise. Then again, a lot of people are avoiding crowds because of H1N1. You can't prove it by the mall parking lot, but that's what I hear.
Gah. About ALL of it.
Gah. About ALL of it.
OMG octomom halloween cannot think omg omg WHY?
Awww... You'll be able to do super-fun, hands-on things for them that you couldn't have done otherwise. A crowd of kids that age is overwhelming, anyway--especially for the little ones. He'll have more fun with just the one kiddo. I have absolutely no comment about the other two things, though. Blech.
THANK GOD she is not an attention whore.
Also...hasn't Jerry O'Connell been a father for like, twenty minutes?
That is a stomach turner....but all will be well. At least, that is what I tell myself and my daughter(s) when events like this occur..and guess what? It all ends up just fine....
Is it too late for me to throw the kids in the car and head north for the party? You never invite me to anything (but I'm sure that's an oversight).
Oof. I'm sorry about the party. I'm sure it's just that you got beat to the punch, but I know it still feels rotten.
I feel ya. We have shelled out for FOURTEEN kids at the bounce house place tomorrow. Guess how many kids from school have RSVP'd? EXACTLY ZERO.
People are incredible. We invited about 40 (this year's s=class and some faves from pre-school who went to different schools) for a 6th bday on Sunday. 15 said yes, 4 no and the rest - nothing at all. Absolutely nothing. So rude.
Charlie's select party will be a blast. The others are the ones who will miss out.
I like Bette's take on things. Have fun regardless.
Ok, Jerry O'Connell is usually annoying, but this is irritating enough to want to remind him that he might really like being Mr. Romijn, but Uncle Jesse (John Stamos) got there first... and seriously.. look at Jerry and look at Stamos, which would you rather be with?
So ha... It's just his insecurities coming to the fore that he must remind everyone that she picked him. After all, it's not like she took his name (see: Rebecca Romijn-Stamos).
I think every parent has been there (the party thing.) I know you will make it a good time for them. Wish we could come.
This is what I hate about parenthood. Makes me wish for the good old days of colic and spit up. Seriously. We're going through it too, and it's killing me.
Oh man, I'm sorry about the party. One is way worse than none at least for adult parties. For kids hopefully it can just be a fun playdate.
I was invited to a "pencil sharpening party" shortly before school started. I showed up, a little late but figuring that would be fine, and I was the only one there. The resident 5-year-old earnestly informed me that before I'd arrived, her mom had said, "No one came to my pencil sharpening party!" Isn't that the worst thing ever? Then, a few minutes later, "Mom, are you happy now? Someone came to your party!"
We actually had a great time chatting but man, you can't fake anything with a 5 year old around.
Kids are amazingly resilient and often we feel the disappointment that they don't, but are entitled to. I hope that Charlie and his one friend have the best damned time ever. Been there, done that -- a couple of years ago, only ONE classmate of 19 invited came to one of my kid's birthday parties. Thankfully, there was a host of cousins to lessen the impact. I was disappointed on my kid's behalf, but he was so jazzed by seeing just the one friend in a setting outside of school that he was thrilled.
I know not what to say about Suleman. I think I stopped being shocked ages ago.
Please have FUN with Charlie at the party. It will make me feel better about the parties I had that only one or two friends showed up to. Lots of virual friends will be there......
We'd have come to your party, but we weren't invited. Costumes in May 2010?
Just had a play date where I pretended not to notice as my daughter and her friend made water balloons in the bathroom. VERY fun playdate........
at their age, one is perfect!
It's swine flu fears, I bet, nothing personal. People are just freaked about kids getting sick. Luckily at his age, Charlie will not care at all.
Hope they have fun on their very special VIPs only playdate! Do it up!
As for the mom and her 8 babies, dude, am I the only one to notice that at least all 8 look fabulous? They are all chunks and no matter how we feel about their conception and their AWing, maybe crazy mother, at least they appear to be thriving. It so totally could have gone the other direction as we all know. How lucky for all of them.
I think Charlie will have a bang up time w/ one buddy. I think too you may be surprised by more than one showing up b/c holy shitballs are people rude with ignoring RSVPs.
I have nothing to say about Suleman except WOW those babies are really looking great given that they're still under a year old. Which brings me back to WTF is she doing taking them out for Halloween during flu season but.....sigh. Whatever, they look good and I will keep the rest to myself.
And Jerry O'Connell? Fuck that guy. Fuck that guy right in his eye.
Who or what is the subject of those verbs in Jerry O'Not-Stamos' title? The complete disregard of parallelism hurts my brain.
Sarah, I was thinking the same thing re: the 8 babies. Not even an oxygen cannula amongst all of them.
Thank the dear, sweet Lord for H1N1! Although it does little for you, I think you could pretty easily explain to Charlie that folks are not going to too many parties because they don't want to get sick. And if Halloween isn't the season to tell little fibs to our kids, well, then Christmas is right about the corner...
Dude -lame kids aren't worth his time. Ditto on lame kids with their annoying parents. Times 10. I commend his discerning taste.
Julie, Charile will have super special time with that one kid. Adventures galore with the undivided attention. I hope to read an update that it was a big hit.
Chin up mama, your babe is gonna be alright.
Sorry that you only have 1 kid coming, but you did say that you got the invitation up late and there were already 2 other parties apparently going on. I think it's awesome that he has a friend coming and I don't know why some of the people leaving comments are acting like the kids/parents from his class are such jerks for not coming to Charlie's party. It was probably just late notice is all and maybe they already committed to something else. I'm sure Charlie will have fun!
I met Jerry O'Connell once and he was really, really nice! And Rebecca Romijn seems really nice, too. And John Stamos is short. Need I say more.
If he was a Sci-Fi geek, I'm sure he will never quite get over the fact that he is married to Rebecca Romijn. And that is the way it should be, all guys should be awestruck that the women they are with chose them!
you know most of us would pay good money to have our kids attend a party with yours...
It's been my experience (pre-school thru 2nd grade) that out of however many you invite to a party, 1/3 will RSVP with a yes and only one will RSVP with a no. And then 1/4 will show up.
Ugh re the party (I can't think what to say about octomum). This would hurt my feelings terribly, but I'm hoping Charlie has a fabulous time and doesn't remember that more people were supposed to come.
I am sure it was simply that you were a little late with the invitation for a Halloween soiree, and the formality of the "real" invitations made those parties look important, plus swine flu, and the fact that children often make their trick-or-treat plans way in advance and srongly prefer their own neighborhoods that resulted in the low turnout. Also, you haven't seen the turnout yet, because people are really bad about rsvp. They may all show up if it rains. Also, children this young go where their parents choose, and parents all lined up their friends with children two weeks ago. All that being said, there is a problem with a school that allows invitations to be delivered to school boxes unless they are to the entire class. Even as my children got older, the school refused the delivery of invitations from school.
The worst thing that ever happened to us along these lines was that my sixth-grade daughter was the only girl from her class not invited to a party and then on Monday the birthday girl told her "Katie was sick and couldn't have her party favor. Would you drop it off since you live near her?" We preserved a dignified silence, but the birthday girl got the class good citizen award a month later. It was a valuable lesson about many, many things. However, more than 30 years have gone by, and I can see some humor it it. My daughter even sees some, not much.
That one kid? He and Charlie will have The. Best. Time. Ever. They will grow up to be best friends and play baseball and join the wrestling team and live at each other's homes until one moves away. Even then they will be good friends. How do I know this? It happened to my son when the entire kindergarten did not show up for his birthday except for one kid. That one kid? Worth all the rest of them put together.
aw man. charlie=awesome no matter how many kids are at his party!
I would be interested to hear if the memoir in question discussed fertility treatments, or if holywood types are simply so AWESOME at the 'make love to wife' bit that they all end up with twins.
Or if they admit to the presence of paid help making the 'make love to wife' bit possible because both parents are not in fact walking zombies bleary eyed with fatigue.
Sex, it's for the well rested and wealthy parents of multiples :)
I'm with the people saying Charlie will be fine with his One. I think people probably picked the "first-up" parties first, and it's not a comment on your little guy, even though it feels like it is. They'll have a blast though, and won't even think about the people who weren't there.
I have a slightly different problem though, in that my son has a crush on one girl he invited to his 6th next weekend. If she doesn't show, he'll be crushed... :-/
So, how'd it go?
My eyes! A warning before linking to a freakish photo, please ...
I'd go to your party, Charlie. And I think my Chipmunk would dig it like woah.
We just got back from Norwich, VT (my sister's town) for Halloween. The Norwich Inn on Main Street throws a party for all the kids in the town (about a hundred or so), with bobbing for apples in the fountain, bobbing for donut holes dangled on forks from strings, donuts, cider, and jumping in the ginormous leaf pile. Then all the kids in the entire town go trick-or-treating along Main Street, whose residents decorate their houses as spookily as possible. All the families in town donate candy to the Main Street houses. It's as wholesome and all-American as you can get, which is why we drive up from MA to go there. They don't even mind that we don't live there, because they're just that nice. If you live nearby, you could do that next year. Less stressful.
dude how was the party??????
i dressed up as a pregnant nun once (ala octomom) and wound up very pregnant. karma that i hope stays away from octomom since she has enough kids.
I was freaked out because only 5 kids were confirmed for my son's bday party this saturday. Another actually made it a little late (had told me that they'd try) and since it was at a local ice cream store w/play area, no one noticed. PLUS, we were able to spring for ice cream for the parents as well.