This party is always pot-luck so it's really quite easy to host. Nonetheless, certain obsessive compulsives in the family, who will remain anonymous (we all know who he is) insisted on getting a head count on party guests and he dumped that chore on me. I don't know why, since neither he nor I are hosting and it's really not our place to invite folks to a party at someone else's house. In the interest of this OC sufferer being able to sleep at night, I sent out a notice via Facebook to everyone that the party will indeed, be back at Tyler's house.
Dear Everyone Under the Age of 40,
People have been issuing invitations to events for thousands of years. In all that time, it was never considered necessary to send invitations to individual members of the house hold, with the exception of weddings and even then, couples were addressed together.
I did not 'forget' to invite your spouses and significant others. I merely presumed that spouses spoke to each other and that honeys who have been attending our family holiday parties for years would know that they were included. Apparently I was wrong and that is sad but a post for another day.
I sent an invite to everyone with whom I am already 'friends' and assumed I'd reached each family. Your kids are invited, too!
I guess you could claim that in the Age of Facebook, invitations work differently, to which I respond "The Age of Facebook is sad and stupid and I refuse to conform!"
When your toddlers start school and set up their own Facebook pages, I'm not going to 'friend' them just so I can invite them to Christmas. That's for you to do.
So Merry Christmas, peel your faces out of your screens and let's have a good old Face to Face Holiday!
Sincerely and with much Love, (the old fart) Mary Louise
*two years ago, we had it back at our house, as Katie, who was 9mos pregnant with BoopityBoop, couldn't travel that far from the hospital. The girls were born 72 hours later.