When will I learn

So in January its my two girls birthdays. I am saying nothing about who thought it was a good idea to have two birthdays both at the start of January. This is a pain in the butt in oh so may ways.

With my first I hit it absolutely perfect with him being a June baby, so we have plenty of time to recover after Christmas and Easter before the next onslaught of presents and partying.

However after him I clearly turned stupid with a birthday exactly one month before Christmas, one a week after and one 6 days after that. Its no wonder I am currently very tipsy and on the brink of falling into insanity.

At several points over the last few days I have actually wondered if my head might explode, but after sitting down and writing my little list, thank the lord for lists, I know feel a little more in control.

Back to the point, the girls are having a joint party, so I book the hall and the bouncy castle and put a big rush on to get the invites out before the Christmas holidays.

Me " who do you want to come to your party"
Cat " everyone I have ever met (about 40 kids)"
Alex "everyone I have ever met ( about 50 kids)"
Me "that's great but lets narrow this list down to about 15 kids each

Much discussion later we are down to about 25 names each and I get to the point where I surrender, after all out of 50 kids we are certainly absolutely 100% definitely going to a get at least 25% that can't come.

I am clearly a fool, here we are less than a week later with probably over 25 replies back, and you have guessed that natural cull that I had hoped for has failed miserably, and every single one of those invited has so far said yes. For goodness sake whatever happened to being busy and having other commitments, these kids and their families clearly need to get a life, and refuse my invite, so I can start to get the number of attendees below the 50 number.

With 3 kids and 1 baby I am not entirely convinced how we will cope with all our own kids and 50 of other peoples little darlings, all hyped up on a mixture of bouncing excitement and sugar.

Someone help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1