im in a group where we stream a little bit of v3 every week and voice act it. unfortunately stuffing macaroni in my face during the caged child seance was not a good idea
Today, I will
Be carefree
Will go to the park
Nurture with Mother Nature
And hug a tree
The shade of the tree
Will comfort me
I will laugh, sing
And dance
As if nobody
Is watching me
I will meditate
Be childlike
And express
My gratitude
Toward’s Mother Nature
That is what
I am going to do
To set my soul free
Doing between 3-5 birthday parties every weekend means I get to see a lot of different people doing different types of parties, and this includes Instagram style parties.
For the record as long as the kids are happy and safe, do whatever the hell you want. It literally doesn't matter just give the kid a happy birthday and everything else is irrelevant.
However if you are prioritising how your party looks to others over your kiddo on their special day, then it's a problem.
The frustration I feel over kids in expensive outfits who can't play incase they get dirty, or kids being torn away from games I'm running to take a thousand photos with their parents friends, or kids who clearly don't like whatever theme the parents chose yet the parents doesn't care because the party is more for their followers than their baby, is immense. I can't say anything, all I can do is try to make sure the birthday kiddo is having some fun.
But here's the fun revenge.
I have gone to so many 'white' and 'beige' aesthetic parties. You'll have seen them, all white aesthetic that looks amazing in pictures but is depressing as hell at a 6 year olds birthday party. There is an infamous set of white ball pits and white bouncy castles and white soft play that I constantly see rented out for these events.
You know what's great about those all white rentals? It takes one kid with a runny nose to make every picture of that bouncy castle look nasty. You know what my job is? To run birthday parties. You know what I have the power to do?
Have the kids run about getting muddy and dusty and filthy then send them all screaming into the EXTREMELY easy to stain bouncy castle and decorations and 'accidentally' make all the photos the parents are so concerned about look awful.
Yes it's petty but god lord is it hilarious watching then boil red with rage but not be able to do shit about it without looking insane because screaming at children for playing at a birthday party is generally not a good look
You don’t know true mental turmoil and destruction like I do, how it feels to have everything you once knew be burning to the ground around you, unless you were there on the day MCD season 2 episode 100 was released and you physically jumped up and celebrated telling your mother how Laurance was shad and laurmau was confirmed,
only to in the next few minutes realize they were actually setting up for Aaron to be revealed as shad and aarmau becoming canon.
💙Coit: I envy your adventurous nature and free spirit. You made me a mother. Better than that, you made me your mommy. The best job that I will ever have. Your hugs and kisses are the best rewards that I could ever be given.
💙Each day I've wanted to slow down time so I could experience each new moment with you over and over again. Inside I have a sinking suspicion that I will blink my eyes and you will be a teenager, a young man, and then a father yourself.
💙I love you to the moon and back. More than all the stars in the sky and deeper than the ocean. I get to experience the joys of motherhood and Mother's Day because of you. I love you so much.
so if nothing else / allow me to sing
of hearth and of home and of beautiful things
of dew on green grasses and gold-orange skies
of world's little wonders with new-opened eyes