I gotta problem and don't know

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I gotta problem and don't know
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Mon, 08-11-2003 - 1:01pm
exactly what I'm going to do. Came home at lunch to find my oldest DD fuming at her father and pretty much in tears. After dragging it out of her I find out that a friend of ours is angry at her that she hadn't planned a party for me for my 50th. Apparently she approached my DD around the time of my bday and DD explained to her that she couldn't really do anything because she was taking a grad school course that was consuming all her time. And if she planned something it was going to be small like she knew I would like. It seems that Dh has now put it on her to plan something for me at this friend's insistence. He told her that she and her sister should go over to the friends house to starting planning this. First of all I don't want the kids putting out money that they really don't have my kids are very rarely home at the same time to plan anything because of their varying work schedules. This friend has plans of inviting people from out of state etc. I don't want a party and never have wanted one. I was very happy with the tickets to the play and a nice dinner afterwards. Now the problem how do I approach DH without him getting mad at DD that she spilled her guts. This friend is a very nice person but is one that expects the big party etc. (her birthday is 2 weeks after mine and her husband threw her a big party-probably because he figured he was going to be in big dodo if he didn't). But I really think she's sticking her nose where it doesn't belong and I'm angry at DH that he doesn't know me well enough after 27 years to know that I don't like these kinds of things and the fact that he's making DD's life miserable over this whole thing. Anyway my idea was to tell him that I overheard a conversation between DD and DS and approach him about it. What do you think? Any ideas? Gotta figure something out real fast. Sorry if this doesn't make any sense-but trying to do this before running out the door back to work. HELP!

Susan

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Tue, 08-12-2003 - 8:15am
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