Amazingly, my daughter’s first birthday is quickly approaching.  I have yet to make up my mind if I should throw her a birthday party complete with invites, food, decor, party favors, the works OR if we should do a simple celebration at home with just my husband and myself.  So many of my friends as well as moms on mommy-blogs have already begun planning for their child’s first birthday party, in fact, they began months ago!  Sometimes I am amazed with the amount of effort some people put in these parties, and then other times I spend hours on the TomKat Studio blog and dream of all the amazing things I can do to celebrate my child’s birth…

I’m just too neurotic and worry over every single question; how many to invite? Only invite people with kids?  Do I serve lunch or hors devours? Too many concerns!  We don’t have any family here, so I would be putting a group of people in a room together – and half of them don’t even know each other! I’m a nervous hostess, always worrying if people are having fun rather than having fun myself, so the idea of putting someone in an awkward social situation on behalf of my baby’s birthday might just be too much for me to bear.  Then again, she only turns one, once, so who cares about all of my friends?  They can deal!

So, alas, I’m still on the fence, and I know my time to waffle is almost over.  A decision must be made if I am actually going to put invitations in the mail…Any miraculous insight?  Please share!