Hey lazy geniuses! I am Kendra Adachi and you are listening to the lazy genius

podcast. Here I'm gonna help you be a genius about the things that matter and

lazy about the things that don't. Today's episode, the lazy genius survives a

class party and I do not need to convince you of today's pitch. The class

parties are the worst because they kind of are. They're the best for the kids.

They're kind of the worst for the moms, especially if you don't have an

art degree or a million dollars or a million hours. So we're gonna talk about

how to survive a class party and do it well and look like you care. Here's how

we're gonna do that. In the playbook today, we're gonna talk about three things.

Party expectations and how we're not gonna let Pinterest eat our lunch people.

Food, obviously. And then everything else. The core games, favors, all that stuff.

So let's jump in and figure out how to do this without going crazy. Y'all this is

my fifth year of doing preschool class parties. I haven't even really hit the

elementary school ones yet, but those preschool parties are no joke. So let's

figure out how we're gonna do this. All right, in the playbook first we're gonna

talk about party expectations, yours, the kids, the teachers, and the other

parents. Okay, and here's the thing with all of them. We have assumed expectations

and then actual real expectations. So you can think about for you, you kind of know

what your own expectations are, right? Well, really, you would love to be that

mother that you see on the internet. You would like to be the internet mom, the

perfect internet mom, who all the food is in the shape of a butterfly. And you

know, the marshmallows like jump on their own, the little bunny marshmallows

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