I am so glad I didn't get married in the era of pinterest....

So I'm not sure how this happened, but Liam turns 1 on Saturday!  And though I must have been crazy choosing to have his party two days before school starts for the year, I've been spending the last couple of weeks planning a Very Hungry Caterpillar party (well, I say week, but I noticed today that I pinned my first party idea on Pinterest 10 months ago, so really I've been planning for a while?)

Oh well, Pinterest.  Two years ago I found some online party depot, ordered a birthday party set with girlie jungle animals, filled out the invitations by hand, put a paper sign in our front yard and bought some balloons.  I did cater the food and we had way too many people here, but it wasn't stressful.  It was a celebration.  But in the past three years, the mixed blessing that is Pinterest has entered the American lexicon.  The framed pictures may have been sitting there for over a year,  but Liam's "theme" to his nursery was the classic Eric Carle story, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" (at least I have a crib sheet and color scheme that matches).  So I guess early on I decided that the theme to his party would be the same.  Oh yes, parties now have to have themes.  So I figured out how to use Pinterest and started pinning things that I figured would never come to fruition.  Caterpillar cupcake cake?  Balloon sculpture?  Month-by-month picture chain?  English muffin pizzas in a caterpillar shape?  Check, check, check and check.  Then the party planning hit the fan and I had to figure out what I actually wanted to do/ versus what I could actually accomplish. 

But the moral of this post is, this party planning has been somewhat stressful.  It was worth it when my "Liam is Turning 1" candy bar wrappers looked adorable, or the month-by-month caterpillar makes me smile seeing how much he has grown, but I think the multitude of choices makes overachievers like me bite off more than I can chew (especially when school starts 48 hours later). 

But it's fun.  Really fun.  Or else I wouldn't be doing it.  But considering my incredible level of indecisiveness, I'm really glad I did not get married in the era of Pinterest.  Instead of having celebrated our 6th anniversary, I may still have been ruminating over the different ways I could fold the napkins at the cocktail hour.  But alas, I had to settle for magazines and blogs, and instead I could save my Pinterest obsession for Liam's first birthday.  Or Sarah's third.....