I am going start off with the back story… I have a friend, let’s call her Sarah, who loves celebrating her birthday! Sarah’s birthday is coming up, and we had started to brainstorm some ideas awhile back. Sarah really wanted to celebrate her birthday this year somewhere warm, and recently found a place in Florida to stay for free! Sarah had gone ahead and booked her flight and plans to stay for about a week. Once these plans were made, I began to look for flights. With my work schedule and available flights, I would only be able to go for one night. Flights were at least 250$ round trip. I am not in the financial position to drop this amount of money for such a short trip, and unfortunately had to back out. Sarah expressed understanding, and we decided to just do something fun on her actual birthday when she got back!

Now... sarah and I’s other best friend, let’s call her Miley, is around to have her first baby! Miley is a very laid back, go with the flow type of girl. She decided to put together a last minute baby shower… on our friend Sarah’s birthday. Miley has claimed and expressed that this is truly the only day that works for her and her family, but feels bad it happens to be Sarah’s birthday. I have personally tried to stay out of the situation, as it really has nothing to do with me.. or at least I thought it didn’t.

Before I knew if I’d be going to Florida or not, I had fully planned on going to Miley’s baby shower, then celebrating Sarah afterwards. Well, now sarah all of the sudden wants to go to on a weekend trip out of town for her birthday, and skip Miley’s baby shower. I expressed that I really want to be there for Miley and celebrate her afterwards. Let’s just say Sarah is now not speaking to myself and Mikey. This is just a really sucky situation that I’ve been put in and just want some outside opinions. I want to be there for both of my best friends on there big days and for both of them to feel loved. But I just don’t know what to do.