You’ve probably heard all the bad nightmare stories… the ones about the birthday parties that parents are forced to throw and where things go wrong. The stories about the birthday party that you have to throw not just for your child, but for the 20 classmates they invite… and by extension their parents. There are the last minute inquiries for bouncy castles or play areas, where you have to book at least what seems like a month in advance; a minute less and it seems nowhere is prepared. Calculating the amount of food you have to feed the horde – because by now it isn’t the guests, it’s the horde – trying to remember who RSVP’d, who didn’t… it’s all a complication of what seems should just be a small, friendly event.