Mom writes heartbreaking note after no one showed up to her son’s birthday party

A mother, Kristen Layne has shared a heartbreaking note after her nine-year-old son sent out invites for his birthday party and nobody showed up.  Although no one RSVP’d, Layne had hoped at least a few of the seven invitees would turn up on the day.

She said:



'I don’t blame the kids who didn’t show up, and I’m trying very hard not to blame the parents as I’m honestly too devastated to be angry. There are a million excuses and scenarios that could explain why no one showed. Perhaps they didn’t feel comfortable sending their kids over to our house for a couple of hours, perhaps they already had plans, perhaps their child was sick, or perhaps their child’s invitation never made it home and is crumpled up into a ball at the bottom of their backpack, who really knows? What I do know though, is that M will likely never forget his ninth birthday. It will forever be etched in his memory bank as that one year when no one came to his party. And that kills me as a parent. And it could’ve all been avoided by a simple RSVP, via phone call, text, email, whatever, etc. I know I will definitely never ignore those four little letters ever again.”