Anyone Else with Christmastime Birthdays?

[hidmickey:myantidrug]

Mine was yesterday (27th). I love it because I'm always in a depressed mode once Christmas is over so having a birthday shortly after essentially continues Christmas. It's something to look forward to once Christmas is over.

 

[huntersmom]

My DS bday is 12/31, he will be 5! I always make a big deal of his bday, I even take ALL the Christmas decorations down by 12/30 so that on his day we can focus on his bday. It is hard to get so many gifts at once, but we have asked most relatives to give him a gift card to Walmart, Target or Toys R Us, which we save until spring/ summer to buy toys and outdoor stuff at that time. He usually ends up with several hundred dollars to spend at a later time. We also do his family party on 1/1 in the afternoon ( so the younger relatives can go out the evening before!) Our Dairy Queen has customer appreciation day on 1/1 every year where everything is 1/2 half, including ice cream cakes, so we manage to get a HUGE sheet ice cream birthday cake for about $15, which is great. The other thing I noticed has helped is to have kid parties the first weekend in Jan., vs the weekend between Crhistmas and New Years. The first kid party was held in December and only like 4 kids showed up, but the parties in Jan. have had all attend.

 

[Luckymomoftwo]

DH's b-day is 12/20...nobody in his family really tries to make it special for him...they usually combine his b-day present and Christmas present. His dad (who lived out of state after his parents split up) always called him when he was younger and wished him a Happy B-day and Merry Christmas in the same phone call! He didn't even send him a card let alone a present!!!

So, the first several years we were together, I would buy him a McDonald's b-day cake (I still knew the store manager from when I worked there several years earlier and he would sell them to me even though I wasn't having a party there). I tried to make his b-day special.

My best friend had a baby on 1/1/07. She wasn't due until late February and she had him really early. I feel bad for her...she's going to spend many years trying to have b-day parties for him at a time of year when so many people are partied out and broke!


TO ALL OF YOU WITH HOLIDAY BIRTHDAYS!!!!!

 

[tadamom]

My DD3's b'day was Dec. 15th. This was the first year that she had an actual b'day party with friends and it was on the 9th. Before we had just a family party with dinner, cake & presents. She gets the same treatment as my son -- chooses dinner on her actual day. With the party it was hard b/c most of the friends that were not cousins couldn't come because of family Christmas things going on. I know other people who do the 1/2 b'day in the summer so that more people can come.. I might try that sometime.

One thing I told myself when I found out she was due in December (23rd) was that she will never have a b'day present wrapped in Christmas paper or that we would combine a Christmas/B'day present. Not gonna happen!!!! My parents b'days are December 10th & 11th and we have never done their b'days like that either.

Also something that I plan on doing from now on is taking my kids to see Santa on DD's actual b'day. We did that this year and Santa made a big deal about it. After visiting w/my kids, he got up with his sleigh bells and said he an announcement to the crowd. He told them that today was Parker's (my DD) 3rd b'day and he wanted everyone to sing Happy B'day to her and they did. It was super sweet! I thought it was one way for her to feel really special since in the future other people (not us) will tend to try to mingle it in to a holiday gathering. Santa may not always sing to her but he will be told it is her b'day.

 

[glass slipper girl]

I don't but my DH and my father do. Christmas week is busy in our family. My father's b-day is 12/23 and my husband's is 12/27. My father says he actually liked it growing up because it annoyed his older brother so much. Every year my uncle would complain about how Dad ruined Christmas for him. Back then women were in the hospital for a week after giving birth so my grandmother was in the hospital. Santa put out presents for my uncle but they only let him open one until Mom and the new baby came home from the hospital. Needless to say that didn't go over well with a 6 year old!

 

[encinc]

DS's birthday is December 30. He will be 5! So far, we've done well at keeping his birthday separate from Christmas. We decided early on that his parties would be in January.We initially chose the 3rd weekend in January because that was his due-date. That date seems to have stuck. This year his "kid party" is on January 19th. It works well to help pass the "January blahs."

We try to do something small as a family on his birthday - a special lunch and a cake. We don't make a huge deal of birthdays in our family. I think DS ends up with more simply because we want to make sure that his birthday isn't missed. DH, DS2 and I all have birthdays within 5 days of each other at the end of March!

 

[CarolinaBlue]

Mine is 12/23 and I have always loved it! My family has never combined my birthday and Christmas presents. The only thing I hate is getting birthday presents wrapped in Christmas paper. Took a long time to get DH to understand that's a big no-no for me. I just got back from my birthday trip to WDW. Very magical!

 

[Mandychelle79]

My bday is Dec 14th. Growing up my parents never did anything Christmas Related until after we celebrated my bday. I have never gotten a christmas/bday present combo. I had more issues with most of my family hunting as for a long time my bday coincided with doe (antlerless) season in PA.

 

[dbmarie]

My dd's birthday is on Dec. 23rd. it's very difficult to plan a birthday being so close to christmas.

 

[LoriMomx5]

My birthday is December 16. I have twins who just turned 11 on December 14and I brought them home on my birthday in 1996! I have a 10 year old who was born on December 29th and our daughter whon we adopted when she was 1 month old has the same birthday 5 years later! Today is their shared 10/5 birthday!. My SPetmebr born son and May born husband luckily do not share with anyone else!

 

[dezimber]

My birthday was 12/28. In my younger days I got alot Christmas/birthday combination gifts, my parties were only cake and ice cream at grandmas (my did a carnival for my sister's July birthday.) As time progressed birthday's were taking the family out to a resturant sometimes I got to choose other times it was someones elses choice. On one birthday dinner I broke out in hives-allergric reaction to mistletoe and 2 other times I had a cold and could careless about going out to eat. I finally got to the point where I birthday wish was to nothing but lounge around in my pjs all day and not do anything. To me it's just another day. So after years of not celebrating my birthday it is a lot easier to forget how old I am. When am asked my age I have to do the math or I will answer by stating what year I was born, and let them figure it out. Ignorance is bliss!
Anyway, yesterday I had planned to celebrate with my friends and had my best birthday ever! We always have fun together but last night was so awsome I am getting teary eyed writing this. My friend announced at the end of dinner that she is pregant after 10 years of trying and am so happy for her! We're hoping for a so if there extra any pixie dust girl vibes there is a momma and daddy in So. California awaiting the birth of thier 1st baby and a very large network of family and friends that are equally waiting and supporting this little one.

 

[RIDisneyFan]

We have a lot of December birthdays in my family - my SIL is 12/17, my BIL is 12/19, mine is 12/20, my aunt's and my DD8 are both 12/24, and my FIL is 12/26! We usually have 1 party for me, SIL, and DD8. But this year we did a separate party for DD8 at Build A Bear about 1 1/2 weeks before her birthday. Usually we just have a family party, but this year we had to something special for her because last year we were at WDW on DD10's birthday (in September). DD8 was so jealous of all the attention her big sister got at Disney (we got her a birthday button) last year that she wanted to go home!

 

[reenie1]

My birthday is on Christmas day. I hated it as a child, although it's not as big a deal now. Everyone knows not to wrap the birthday presents in Christmas paper. My birthday definately gets lost in the shuffle of Christmas. When I was little, the morning was Christmas, and the late afternoon was to celebrate my birthday. Now that we're all grown with families of our own, there's no time to fit in a separate birthday celebration!

 

[eliza61]

My son and I are both holiday babies. He's the 25th and I'm 1/1. Since we do not live in the same town as my parents, siblings and cousins, when my son was smaller we had a "birthday in July" celebration this allow him to celebrate with his family. He loved it and it was nice for him to get a boatload of toys in the summer. Now that he's older he usually picks the nearest weekend and parties with his friends. we always make it a point to keep the birthdays a totally seperate celebration

 

[eeyoregon]

Oldest DS turned 15 on December 26 and youngest DS turned 12 on January 2- 1 week apart (plus 3 years)!

As a single Mom it is quite stressful and VERY expensive because I refuse to combine gifts...not their fault that I was fertile myrtle in March!! Plus it makes planning parties hard because their friends are always busy during the holidays.

 

[druidia]

My birthday is 12/20, and yes, it always feels like it gets caught up in the holidays. My parents have always made a great effort to separate my birthday from Christmas: no combo gifts, always a birthday cake (not Christmas themed), and special birthday outings. DH learned these rules early.

As an adult, I don't really care any more. In fact, we have a tradition in our group at work that every person gets a homemade birthday cake of their flavor choice on their birthday, and every year I ask them to NOT give me a cake, because there is already so much junk food and eating going on at that time of year.

But they persist, and they have yet to find anyone who can make a real Southern coconut cake, so I end up with this yucky sugary confection from Publix. Blech!

But I appreciate their efforts to separate my birthday from the bustle of the holidays, as I'm sure many Christmas babies do.