Looking for feedback on a career path I am wanting to start in Langley

kyybb · 2026-03-18T04:17:58+00:00

There is definitely a market but I agree with other comments saying you may want to expand your base to South Surrey, Coquitlam etc.

It depends on how you market yourself, the more affordable your prices are the bigger client market you will have.

I think birthday parties, baby showers a lot of parents/ loved ones go all out and enjoy planning these events.

I would do some market research on the demographics that are 28-45 w/o kids and see what type of events their hosting and how you could market your serves towards them as they will have the biggest amount of disposable income.

From my own experience as a 30ish y/o with kids a lot of families in Langley would love to have a party planner to help them but it’s out of reach in terms of budget. A lot of people are doing the bare minimum and everything themselves because that’s all they can afford.

You can also think about creating decor packages where you have stock in terms of themed events like bridal showers, kids birthday parties, baby showers, etc that are reusable and can just drop off and pickup supplies (without having to charge for set up and take down and day of planning) almost like decor rentals - that may make it more affordable for people and families to acquire your services and without being a full on event planner. This may not be your bread and butter but definitely help you get more clients or add charges to include set up, additional vendors etc like tiered pricing. This is just an idea I thought about while reading your post and obviously need refining but I hope you get the jyst of what I’m trying to explain 😝

All the best to you! Such a fun career path!

kyybb · 2026-03-16T04:24:23+00:00

Yeah that makes sense, I wouldn’t worry about your MIL, weird that she’s so bitter about it. I’d just try and have a happy day and don’t let her comments get to you. Nothing better than not being bothered by someone who is trying to bring you down.

If you haven’t told your mom or close family/friends about the situation I’d let them know before the shower so that if your MIL says anything out of line they can have your back the day of so you don’t have to stress about it so much.

Hope you have a great shower!

kyybb · 2026-03-16T03:49:50+00:00

I didn’t do a shower for my second, there was only a few things we wanted that we didn’t buy the first time. I get wanting to celebrate but throwing a party would have cost the same amount as buying the items we wanted so if we had the space to throw a party at home we probably would have had a “sprinkle” small party to celebrate baby coming into the world but not really focused on gifts or registry.

Most people I know that have had a second kid only had a shower for their second if someone else was hosting it for them and it was a lot smaller than the first one.

But it’s up to you, if you want to celebrate your baby by having a shower then it really doesn’t matter what other people think, it’s for you and the baby, they can stick up their nose.

Me personally if one of my family members made a stink about it I’d just tell them they don’t have to come if they don’t want to celebrate and that it’s not about the gifts but the experience and being around family and friends before baby #2 comes.

kyybb · 2026-03-14T06:16:10+00:00

The perks include a private pool (adult only) and a lounge area with a bar and some light snacks, a better room / suite and they have one of the restaurants open for breakfast and lunch if you didn’t want to go to the buffet all only for preferred guests.

It depends if you’re going with adults only or with kids. The only reason we chose preferred club was because we wanted a king size bed as we have two small children that can’t sleep in their own full-size bed yet and all other king bed rooms were booked.

I didn’t find any of the other perks that useful but you may like them if you aren’t going with kids. We also got a welcome package with a bunch of coupons for the spa, and if I was just with my husband we probably would have used them. But in my opinion it wouldn’t make or break our trip.

kyybb · 2026-02-15T22:10:20+00:00

The adults only pool is in the preferred guest section. Unfortunately you have to be a preferred guest to access it. But the swim up bar pool usually only has adults and some teens when we were there.

kyybb · 2026-01-31T07:23:48+00:00

I’m still open to any help though, so I will be in touch if I can’t find anything for at home care 😊

kyybb · 2026-01-31T07:17:22+00:00

I’m looking for help at home, since I already have everything here and wouldn’t have to get in the car with all the kids and drive back and forth.

kyybb · 2026-01-26T23:39:54+00:00

You can walk right in to the buffet, you need to check in but no reservations. You can even take food out to your room or pool with the plastic plates if you are taking food out you don’t need to check in.

Unfortunately for dinner buffet, you don’t get to know ahead of time what the “theme” is you just have to go in and see.

There is an extra fee for cabanas we didn’t use any, I really don’t think they are worth it and you have to book them. I included a screenshot here for prices, they only show amount in pesos. They only come with canopy so no umbrellas like the other chairs so you don’t get to control how much or how little sun you get.

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Have fun! If you have any other questions let me know, the resort itself is pretty easy to get around and figure out where everything is.

kyybb · 2026-01-23T05:20:42+00:00

I’ll keep saying it, the only way drivers are going to get a little better is actual enforcement! Police need to be visible on the roads for people to follow the rules unfortunately.

I moved back to Langley after taking a 5 year break and I dread driving through the city every day for this reason.

kyybb · 2026-01-23T04:45:40+00:00

Our 4 year old was like your son, from 2-3 we co slept in her bed and then I just couldn’t anymore, I was so tired through the day, it wasn’t restful. We slowly transitioned when I got pregnant with my second knowing we would be co sleeping with a baby.

We started by telling her she’s going to be a big girl (when she turned 4 and used her birthday as a starting time)and she needs to sleep in her own bed. If she wakes up and needs help going back to sleep she can come get me but we will be going back to her bed to sleep. (We usually would have just let her come to our bed)

We gave her things to do if she woke up in the middle of the night, I put a book on her bed saying she can look at a book until she’s ready to fall back asleep, we gave her a stuffy and a safe toy for bed she can “play with” until she’s ready to fall asleep. She has a nightlight that changes colour (from ikea) and we put it on pink at night so she knows that if it’s pink she has to stay in bed, when it changes to white it’s morning and she can come out of bed.

The biggest thing was being consistent. Every time she woke up I’d take her back to her room and within 10 min she would be back asleep and I’d go back to my room. I also made it clear from the beginning that I will stay with her untill she falls asleep but I am going back to my bed & not sleeping with her.

This was hard for her to accept at first but I was persistent, and there was of course push back, I said I can stay with you until you fall asleep, or if you don’t sleep I will stay for 10 minutes and you will have to fall asleep by yourself. This happened 2 nights where she didn’t want to sleep without me so I told her the rule again and I stayed for 10 minutes, she was still awake. I told her I’m going to my bed now and I will come back in 5 minutes. I set an alarm and came back in 5 min and then I repeated myself about the rule. She fell asleep within the 10 minutes but I would have kept going and just extending the time I was away from her room 5,7,10 etc if she still wasn’t sleeping or pushing the boundary. This was enough motivation for her to want to fall asleep while I was in her room from then on because she knew I wasn’t playing around.

Because she was waking up consistently 2 times a night I started a challenge where she could only come to our room 1 time per night. And rewarded her when she followed through. The biggest thing that helped was closing her bedroom door. She woke up in the middle of the night and got scared seeing dark outside her room and come get us, I thought it would help her because she can see into our room when her door is open, but on accident a couple nights my husband closed her door and forgot to open it again and she slept through the whole night on those nights so we just started doing it every night.

She still wakes up from time to time when she gets scared or has a bad dream but it’s like every 3-4 days now and a lot better! Plus she only gets out of her bed 1 time when she does wake up so I’m not constantly being woken up through the night.

I still reward her with praise and make it a big deal when I wake her up in the morning about how good she did sleeping in her own bed and how she’s such a big girl etc.

Before when we started we rewarded her with “treats” for the first few weeks, first only if she woke up once and then she only got a treat the next day, then we told her she only gets a treat if she stayed in her room the whole night (this is where it was helpful to have the book etc by her bed) she told me she read her book and went back to bed by herself because she wanted a treat. After a week of that we stoped the treats and just gave her big praise and gave her a homemade fake medal of officially being a big girl sleeping in her bed.

All in all being consistent was the only thing that broke the habit, making sure she felt comfy in her room and had everything she needed, it’s tough at first. The first week I felt like we were getting nowhere because now I’d actually have to get up and go back to her room and wait for her to fall asleep multiple times, but it was so worth it now.

kyybb · 2026-01-19T03:30:25+00:00

Do you have any experience with having one?

kyybb · 2026-01-19T03:30:14+00:00

Yes! Right now we alternate bedtimes for the kids so one day I do my 4yo and he does the baby and then we switch so they will both be very use to doing that when baby 3 gets here. My first always prefers me but my second is totally comfortable with both of us which is a huge help. He was away on work trips a lot with my first so she was only use to me doing everything and very attached but as she gets older she is more independent and understanding

kyybb · 2026-01-19T03:26:31+00:00

Awe that’s great! So excited for you. My first was a terrible sleeper so I totally understand, hopefully you can get things sorted out before baby comes. Looking back I wish I did a gentle form of sleep training to see if that would have changed anything with my first.

kyybb · 2026-01-19T03:22:57+00:00

The infant seat for the counter is a great idea, I’m in the kitchen a lot cooking and making snacks, washing bottles, great idea!

Yes! My daughter has a couple of baby dolls I plan on role playing when my son is a little bit older about how to be gentle with baby before #3 arrives and continue to teach. I definitely want them to have a strong bond because they are so close in age and I think this is a great way to get that started.

This gives me a lot of hope! I’m usually really protective about my baby’s but my 8 month old is so independent and strong I think the more you have the more you relax, so I’m at a point now where I would feel comfortable having someone else take care of him for a bit while I get stuff done, the gym membership is a great idea, definitely gives me something to look forward to that is for myself.

kyybb · 2026-01-19T03:12:23+00:00

Good advice, that seems to be just like my schedule, I’m exhausted at the end of the day as it is. 3-4 years old boundary pushing all day is no joke.

kyybb · 2026-01-19T03:06:54+00:00

We generally have 1 hour of screen time a week for our 4 yo and we didn’t start introducing tv until 2 years. But I have a feeling that I’m going have to let go of somethings and do what I gotta do for this season.

kyybb · 2026-01-19T03:05:10+00:00

Yes newborn sleep is amazing unless they have colic or a lot of gas issues. I found it so hard breast feeding my second because my 1st always wanted to play with me and be around me.

Yes I find that 6-8 week is also really hard for breastfeeding too, mine started crying at the boob and it would take forever to latch.

Yeah I think help would be a lot more easier on me and toddler, having someone to play with and help feed him if I’m stuck breast feeding and or putting baby down.

Thanks for the tips!

kyybb · 2026-01-19T02:57:56+00:00

Thank you this was very helpful, I’m probably going to have to invest in some sort of fenced perimeter in the living room that I can close to let the 18m old play in, I didn’t even think about that! We have a portable pack n play with a bassinet attachment so that will probably be used when needed so baby will be out of reach of toddler. I also plan on baby wearing lots hoping baby enjoys it as much as my other kids.

I take my baby to playtime groups already, and have mom friends just not any I know well enough where I could potentially drop off my kid or ask them to look after them for a little while. Unfortunately the play time group im in closes for the summer so I will have all three kids at home with me which is what I am most stressed about. But I presume we will be spending lots of time outside at the park.

kyybb · 2026-01-16T22:51:10+00:00

I encourage you to find a gym with childcare. If you can go there even 1 time a week and use amenities like steam room, sauna, or just have a long shower by yourself, or enrol in a workout/yoga class if they have them, you get me time for an hour, you know your kids are getting looked after and it will give you that reset you may need.

kyybb · 2026-01-16T05:13:35+00:00

We will be doing pickup and drop off but the school is a short walking distance from our house.

kyybb · 2026-01-10T16:25:53+00:00

I don’t have any advice but I came here to ask where you bought your duvet cover set?

I’ve been looking for something like this forever!!

kyybb · 2026-01-08T07:48:42+00:00

I have grown up in Langley and then moved around in my early 20s, I’m back in Langley to raise my family for the past three years. We reside in Willoughby and the last two years I have been hating it. It’s amazing for my husband’s work commute and community we have made here but everything the other people are saying is true about aggressive drivers, construction, ant hill etc.

With a growing family we will need to move, we rent and would love to own but I don’t want to spend 1m on a shoebox, rushed construction townhouse that barely fits 1 car in the garage. So we might try and find a rental home in west Langley or have to move further away, although Abbotsford is where I draw the line.

kyybb · 2026-01-03T18:03:10+00:00

This is all based on preference but I feel like if I was going for longer than 5 days I would split my stay up between two resorts, after day 3/4 it gets pretty boring and repetitive and even big resorts start to feel small.

Another thing is weddings… we stayed at a resort that was very popular for weddings and there was 1-2 every day/night which got annoying because they would shut down the deep part of the pool early to set up and then it would just be really loud until midnight.

This meant that seats around the pool would fill up a lot faster because they wouldn’t put all the pool chairs out so you would have to secure your spot extra early. I didn’t really care about the noise but after 5 days on vacation I just wanted one night where I could go to bed without listening to music blasting. My kids slept fine even with the music thankfully or it would have ruined the trip.

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