Anyone Else with Christmastime Birthdays?

[Luv Bunnies]

My birthday is coming up on Sunday. Who else has a birthday around Christmas and do you like it or not?

It was a bigger deal to me when I was a kid. I wished my birthday was at some other time during the year. My friends used to give me one present and say it was for Christmas and my birthday and I thought it stunk!

Now that I'm older, I don't mind so much. I still think it would be fun to have a special day at some other time of year. Oh well, apparently I was due on Christmas Day and decided to be born 5 days late. It could have been worse!

 

[4 Little Bears]

Both my children were born on the same day (Dec 9) in 1994 and 1996...this year my son wondered why he had to share a birthday with his sister when all his friends have their own birthdays.

It can be pretty expensive around here during the holidays, but I promised myself I would never give my kids a gift that would be for their birthday and Christmas.

 

[lacrossemom]

My daughter's birthday is on December 26th. She always has a sleep-over party a week or so before it. Then the family celebrates on her birthday. I always seperate it from Christmas, so she feels special on her day.

Lacrossemom

 

[memobrien]

My daughter's birthday is on December 26th. I make a real effort to keep it seperate. It's hard becauase you can't really control how the rest of the family will deal with it. My birthday is Nov 28th and my family use to combine it with christmas. So i'm sure at some point they will start doing that to my daughter.

Anyway... I try to seperate it as much as possible. Usually I have her party in Jan. But becuase we are going away in Jan I decided to have it earlier so we celebrated it on Dec 8th.


oh i forgot... we always so something on her actually birthday too. so that doesn't get forgotten. this year i surprised her with a little cake when she woke up. And I said we can do anything you want today...so she picked getting her nails done and going to the movies. Then we go out for dinner at her choice of restaurant.

Maura

 

[drivencrazy]

I've got 4 kids... Nov. 9th
Dec. 17th
Dec. 21st
Jan. 1st

The oldest is the 17th, we have had family give one "Christmas/birthday" gift, it doesn't bother her as much as me. But we have always made it her day... she got to decide if the tree goes up befor her b-day or after, always deciding before and then we put streamers on it for her day!

The youngest is the 21st... and she turned 3 this year! She doesn't mind, yet!

And as for their Birthday Parties... it just gets to hard for everyone to come to 4 parties w/in such a short time that we just do one BIG party and invite EVERYONE!!! We rent out a whole skate center and have a blast. The kids are all in agrement with this and on their b-day we do dinner of their choice and they get their gifts from us (my parents always give them something as well)... they don't mind and I hope to keep it that way!

 

[momof3girls6712]

My oldest birthday is december 21st. When she was younger we would throw a huge party and made sure she had a birthday and Christmas. Since she turned 9 she has asked to celebrate her birthday at the end of January. It is easier for her friends to be able to celbreate with her and there is more money to go around. However, we always have a small cake and family party on her birthday and I send flowers to her at school on the day.

 

[jenb1023]

Actually, today is my birthday (12/28)! I don't like it being so close to Christmas. My parents always did a good job of separating the two but most people didn't. It doesn't really bother me now but I used to really hate it when I was younger especially when people would wrap my present in Christmas paper or write and Happy Birthday too in a christmas card. I do still find it a little annoying that some of my family just hand me a card at the family Christmas gathering. How hard would it be to mail it like I do yours? My mom tells me it is my fault - I wasn't due until February 6th so she had it planned right!

Christmas birthdays runs in both sides of the family. . .
My grandma's is the 26th and my aunt's is the 25th
On my husband's side, our niece's is the 24th and my mother in law is Jan 4.

I was glad to read all of the posts that you as parents try to make it separate for your kids. I really appreciate the efforts my parents made to do that so my birthday could be its own celebration.

Happy birthday to all of you Christmas babies!

 

[rjan67]

My Dd's birthday is New Year's Eve. She will appreciate that more as she gets older. She gets birthday presents just the same (although this year she got to see Hannah Montana so that was her present) and will have a sleepover next weekend with birthday cake etc. She often gets her presents from other relatives at the same time as her Christmas presents because that is when she sees them. I always wrap her presents in birthday paper and try to make it a normal birthday.

 

[caitty13]

My son's bday is 12/24. He just turned 3 so I am not sure what to expect inthe future. Up until now I have been trying to have a party a couple weeks prior. Except for this year we brought him to Disney.

 

[halld6479]

my youngest son now 30 has a Dec 24th, when he was younger he felt left out on b-day parties on his b-days, and friends were always tied up with xmas activites so parties were hard to get organized for groups like skate parties. As he got older we tried to have his parties a week early but he said once it didn't seem like his b-day so we stopped. Now he is older he has talked about what he feels, he says he has always felt cheater for attention for "his day" but again he likes the extra money at xmas he gets for both totaled together. B-day cakes would ofter get let setting next to holiday pies, seemed everyone wanted pie instead of cake.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Not mine, but DH's, was the 19th. He always hated it when relatives combined Christmas and birthday cards/gifts, so kudos to all of you making the effort to keep it seperate for your kids!

I sometimes find it hard to schedule family gatherings with everyone so busy, or that a Christmas activity falls on his birthday - so his special dinner or whatever gets overshadowed.

Sometimes we have a half-circle cake on June 19th, for his "half-birthday". And once, my Mom sent him a birthday card for every year before she had met him, so at least once he'd get a lot of cards.

 

[DisneyMomx7]

DD's birthday is December 30th. This year we are going out to breakfast since I'm taking both dd's to the Disney Jingle Jam Concert later than night.

We are celebrating her "family birthday" in Disney at the beginning of January and she'll have her school friends party later in January. She likes to do it this way so her birthday doesn't feel so crunched between Christmas and New Years.

 

[Princess Roo]

Mine is. My mom was great about treating it as a separate even, but the part that I hated the most was that you get all your presents at one time during the year. So, if a cool new toy or something came out in January (or a friend got a great Christmas present that I would like, too) you couldn't get it for a year. Even worse my sister's bday was in the summer and SHE could get it and rub it in! (we are close in age). Now the biggest problem is that I just don't want that much and I have family that wants gift ideas for me. I never have enough ideas at one point in the year and most don't like the idea of making a charitable contribution instead, unfortunately.

Anyways, one thing we have decided to do for our kids (and now I have a DD with a Dec b-day) is to also celebrate their half-birthday. DH and I will get them very little for their actual birthday (since the grandparents and friends load them up to much already) and then get them something for their half-birthday. They also get to pick their favorite dinner for me to make that night and we buy one of those half-cakes you can get at the grocery store.

 

[karen l]

My DSis is 12/17 & mine is 12/31. Our parents always tried to make it special
but some years it was hard - esp my birthday. My wedding anniversary was 12/27 & my DH always went out of his way to make it & my birthday special. Since he passed away, my kids do some nice things for me to make my birthday fun. I'm having some family over this year but I'll miss my DH & my oldest DS won't be home (New Year's Eve party). Just plan on enjoying my family & ringing in the New Year.

 

[mom2att]

My birthday is coming up on Sunday. Who else has a birthday around Christmas and do you like it or not?

Mine was Wednesday (12/26). I didn't like it when I was a kid--seemed like my sisters got a stack of presents for their birthdays and then another stack for Christmas, but my stack was always combined into one. Plus it was hard to plan parties since everyone is on vacation at that time.

Now I think it's a neat birthday, because it's one people notice. Plus, it's become tradition in our family for my birthday gift to be a shopping day all by myself, and it's certainly a great day for that!

Happy Birthday to the other Christmas-time babies!

 

[luckey-lasvegas]

My DD's(11) birthday is December 20th. It's hard to get her friends together then because of the Christmas break, so we always do a family party on her birthday. Then we either do a kids party in January or a 1/2 party in July so we can use the pool. This year she is having a New Years Eve Slumber party, with 3 friends. She doesn't seem to mind and her Christmas celebration seems to last a very long time.

 

[pixiewings71]

My DD8's b-day is Dec 15. I've always made sure her day was seperate from Christmas, she gets a nice party with her friends and we give her gifts wrapped in b-day paper and NOT Christmas paper. She gets the same treatment as my other girls, she gets to pick where we eat dinner and what kind of dessert she wants. This year we took her to DL, she's the first in our family to spend a birthday at Disney!! She loved that. It's important to me to make sure her birthday is not Christmas. My DBF's b-day is January 7th, I always make a big deal of his too. Actually all the b-days in my immediate family are around holidays, DBF is 1-7, DDturning20 is 2-16, mine is May 25th, DD11 is 7-8 and DD8 is 12-15....LOL We are all holiday time babies I guess.

 

[daisyduck123]

My birthday is coming up on Sunday.

Happy b-day to you!!

Both my DH & Dmom have their birthday's on Sunday as well.

DH will be spending his at the Redskins game. I'm not sure what the rest of us will be doing.

 

[Mkrop]

DS5(still not used to typing that ) was yesterday 12/27. His forst couple of birthdays were hard to scheudle not bc of Christmas activities but bc of the darn Phila Eagles making the playoffs/Super Bowl, no one wanted to be away from their TVs or wanted to go to the games and you never knew when the games would be until the last minute so we just did family parties but even then it was a pain to schedule.

I am starting to look into a kid party for him this year. I am hoping to do it in Jan. I kind of like having it away from Christmas. They get so much stuff from family etc and DS5 in particular gets very overwhlemed by all the hoopla the holidays bring so I will definitely always separate it.

Last night he chose pizza and french fries, two balloons from the supermarket, and he wanted an ice cream cake, so that's what we did!

 

[princesssfws]

My three kids birthdays are all around the holidays.

DD 8 - Dec. 11 (due 12/19)
DD 6 - Dec. 22 (due 12/25)
DS 3 - Jan. 10 (due 2/1)

I always do a party for their bdays and I try to separate the 2 girls, but this year I did my 2 DD on the same day but as 2 separate parties. I have to do the middle dd bday early or no one is around to come.

The past 2 years we have taken the kids to WDW for their bdays and not gotten them gifts (although they get gifts from everyone else and their friends).

Their grandparents are all great at getting both Christmas and bday gifts but not the aunts and uncles. So I have taken that to mean that we are just doing Christmas gifts for nieces and nephews.

The kids don't seem to mind yet but it is very difficult to think of so many things to get them, but on the bright side usually toys are on sale this time of year so they get more.