Party Thoughts...Am I Irrational?

Blog N' Bitch...

Yesterday was the kid's birthday party (which I will blog about later as a good thing), but I need some perspective on something else.  Am I being irrational? 

This one girl was invited.  Guess who shows up?  Her mother and older (5th grade) brother...who expects and is expected to participate in the party?  THE GIRL WAS INVITED, not her brother!  Anyway, the mother stays for the party and plops her fat ass in the chair on the patio and talks the entire time to one of the other parents.  Never volunteered to help, never getting up except to eat a piece of cake.

Well, the girl cried the entire time.  For everything.  She couldn't break the pinata open.  She cried.  She couldn't pop a ballon on her ankle.  She cried.  The potato sack race was "too hard."  She cried.  The mother babied her the entire freaking time.  (Let me just note, this kid was invited to another party that my kid went to and did the same thing at the party.  Cried the entire time.)

Then here comes her brother.  Who says the games are stupid and starts throwing a tennis ball against my house.  The mother says nothing.  He takes a wack at the pinata and it falls on the ground.  So instead of stopping and letting us hang it back up (it was not broken open) he starts beating it while everyone else is screaming at him to stop.  The mother says nothing to him.  We finally hang it back up.  Then at the end when everyone is leaving he walks up to me and says (direct quote):  "I want my goody bag!"  Mother says nothing.  No thank you from the kid.

Needless to say, I was PISSED.  Hence this blog post.  I'm still pissed when I think about it today.  I wanted to smack them all to the moon.  Were they rude?  Or am I wrong to be pissed? 

My points:
1.  Only the girl was invited.  The invitation was addressed specifically to this child.
2.  The party was for 2nd graders.
3.  The boy, I think was extremely rude.
4.  The mother, HELLLLLOOOOO????  Need I say more?
5.  They live 4 blocks away.  They couldn't have gone home and come back 2 hours later?

Now I get that the mother probably stayed because the kid is a whopping cry baby, but then she should take her home or stop babying her and tell her to suck it up.  I may be a bitch, but there is no way I'd tolerate that if my kid did it.  I simply don't have the patience.  Either have fun or don't go.  How is this kid going to make it through life?  Mama's gonna hold her hand???

When I was little, if my sister was invited to a party, it was for my sister.  If I was invited to a party, it was for me.  Same with playdates.  If my sister had someone over I was expected to find something else to do.  That was for her.  Same for me. 

What the hell is wrong with people who do this?  Is it not rude to just expect that your other, older or younger child was invited too or be allowed to participate?  What if I hadn't have had extra goody bags?  What if I would have had a spine and said something like, "No, you can sit on the porch with your mother and wait."  Wonder what the reaction would have been?

Would you do it?  I know I only have one child, but I would never do that to someone if I had more than one.  I think it's unacceptable.  The kid has other friends who had younger/older siblings and none of them stayed on for the party.  WTF?  Am I being irrational?  Or did this situation border on ridiculous???