In a remarkable example of human decency, twenty-five parents took their children late-notice to a young lads fourth birthday party after he was stood up by everyone his mum had invited.
The last-minute plea came together after Melbourne mother, Rachelle Briannan, messaged the Facebook mother's group Midnight Mums early on Sunday morning.
"So I'm sitting in my room quietly crying." Briannan wrote. "12 kids were invited to my sons party today, and an hour before every one of them cancels or just doesn't reply to my msgs (sic).
"My son just turned 4 and this is the first time he's really understood the whole party with friends thing. My heart is literally broken for him!! I'm so hurt and angry.
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"What the hell can I do to make this up to him? Seriously. Like I made him this huge superhero cake and there's going to be no one to even sing happy birthday to him."
Luckily, the mums assembled and drove their kids to Melbourne's Eltham McDonald's to celebrate - a few of whom traveled over 30 minutes to be there.
A total of 30 kids eventually joined Briannan's son Taenon's party and all was well.
"The Midnight Mums community rallied together online with hundreds of birthday wishes for Taenon flooding our newsfeeds and touching the hearts of our members with this feel good story right across Australia and beyond," the group posted on their Facebook.
Parental blogger Constance Hall, a mother-of-four from Perth, shared the story to her 600,000 followers.
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She wrote: "This happens, we have all had to pull out of a kids party on the odd occasion, we just have to hope that we aren't all pulling out of the same one.
"So Taenon's mum Rachelle Briannan of Melbourne did what most modern mums in the year 2016 would do and she vented publicly in a post to a big Facebook online mothers group about the heart ache that comes with organising a huge party for your little man and knowing that his heart was about to break."
Constance also said strangers were popping by to drop off presents.
"Rachelle was and still is speechless," she added.
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"Taenon was over the moon, had the best day. Queens smashed this party out and what on earth is more important then a little sweet pea on his fourth birthday (sic).
"Bravo Rachelle for reaching out to your Queens and Bravo Queens for being Queens. And happy birthday little King Taenon, may you never forget how truly loved you are."
Words by Josh Teal
Image credit: Facebook
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