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My son likes to have a big birthday party. I have a large group of friends whom I met at the local Early Years Centre and have met a lot of other wonderful moms during my time as a stay at home mom. The birthdays are often a time for both the adults and the kids to re-connect and reminisce about our “babies”. There’s something warm and fuzzy about celebrating the birth of my child – seeing his excitement and enthusiasm, and his moments of pure bliss, running around wild with his friends. There is one sore point, however, that I feel when I think of a big birthday party; excessive gifts. The volumes upon volumes of presents he has received in the past, quite honestly makes me cringe. We already have too many toys in our house, and they just seem to keep accumulating, even though I try to donate unused ones regularly.

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