We are just a lower middle class family whose family income is just enough to supply our neccessities and a few wants and my brothers and i never really experienced a "real" birthday party but i was cool with that but Just earlier i just got finished cooking for dinner and i was going upstairs to check on my youngest brother who was asleep in my parents's room and my other 8 year old brother was watching after him. He was just sitting there with a solemn look on his face and when i asked him what was wrong he said that there was a kid on the block in front of our's having a birthday party. It was sad enough that he wasn't even invited so i jokingly asked him if he wanted to have his own birthday party but he said he only wanted have one blue balloon and i heard my heart break into a million pieces.