What a lovely bunch of Coconuts!

Friday is our Blue & Gold dinner for Cub Scouts. The lady in charge of the event is extremely sweet, however no one seems to listen to her requests. I have been on her side with her decisions but there seems to be an "good 'ol boys" club thing happening.

One of the "boys" decided to get REAL Hawaiian dancers for the event. The other leaders of the pack are mostly men and you can see their eyes light up at the thought of it. (Mainly the coconut bras they have seen on the dance companys web page).

This little venture took up more than 1/2 of the total party budget and my friend and I cannot seem to make our point about it being for the scouts. The dinner is Pot-Luck, and the majority of the decorations will be donated and home made because there is not enough $ in the budget.

The same guy also got everyone to agree on a pool party at the Pack's expense (which I am thinking does not have enough at this point to pay for what little is left over after the dancers take their share.

I did not make the picture, I got the hula girl picture from here: Hula Girl by William Warby @ http://widgets.yahoo.com/gallery/view.php?widget=36981

Call me CRAZY!

My one and ONLY nephew will be turning one in May.
His mom is throwing him a birthday party (of course-who would not!).

She mentioned that we could not invite all of our side of the family because too many of "their friends and family" were already coming.

Totally understandable. You do not want to overwhelm the poor little fella.

Here is the CRAZY part.. I am having problems deciding if I am the crazy one or if they are.

I offered to have another 1st birthday part at our house so they could invite the rest of the family. (Having 3 kids of my own, I would personally LOVE to have someone offer this to me!-but that is beside the point).


The reply I recieved (after a week of silence) was almost angry. I got the following snippets from the large email sent back:

"yea, this touched a nerve with us."

"we felt somewhat insulted that you didn't think our party for (DS) was going to be good enough."

"...when you said you wanted to throw him a birthday party I felt completely put down. Like you were trying to take something so special away from me."

"For you to suggest having a party at your house amongst a majority of people (*his relatives) he doesnt know or feel comfortable with just doesnt seem right"

Is the offer of a second party inappropriate of me to even suggest? I was trying to help have a great 1st birthday party by trying to include the whole family (there are not many children at least on our side).

If anything I was thinking all they had to say was "No Thank You!" the hostility is disturbing me. Now that is going to be a "thing" hanging there in the air whever I see them. :(

*sigh*
Call me crazy.

I have let my Complaining Blog be known.... :O

You know who you are! If you start a complaining blog, you need to give me your blog address too! :P

Not much to complain about today. Hubby said I spent too much time on the computer yesterday. Hmmm, is that men-speak for "You did not do enough cleaning around the house."?