Today is my husband's birthday, and my son's is this Saturday. It got me thinking about birthdays and how different people may celebrate. We don't do anything fancy, but he did request a slightly less healthy meal for dinner tonight. How do you celebrate?
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My Daughter and her husband and me and my husband have a little tradition of taking the one and her husband out for dinner on their Birthday or the weekend before depending on how it falls. Today is My Daughter's Birthday and we took them out Saturday for her Birthday but unfortunately her dinner made her sick. They filed a report with the owner. It's just getting terrible to eat out anymore. I just had some bad chicken in a restaurant 2 weeks ago but I could taste that it was bad. Is anyone else experiencing this?
I always love to get surprises from my loved one and I guess everyone love to see something in their birthday
Wish your Daughter a happy birthday from me. I'm sorry she got sick from her birthday dinner, maybe a do-over is in order . My son did get sick from a Mexican restaurant about two weeks ago. I usually have trouble more in the - they got my order wrong - department.
My birthday is in the same day as my Sister in-law - in our Winter Solstice. When I was young, it was always test day at school/college so I could never have a party because everybody was always busy. These days, either my friends are celebrating the Winter Solstice, or they´re broke. So, I only do a double party with my SIL for our close family. It usually consists on lunching on a fancy restaurant and them go to someone´s house play some kind of game, and a simple cake at the afternoon tea.
My sister had the same problem when we were growing up. Her birthday is August 31st, and it seemed like we started school on her birthday more years than not. Happy Birthday -right.
If I celebrate it... I do so quietly....because several yrs ago a family member was murdered in the wee hours of the A.M. on my birthday...in front of her young son & daughter... domestic abuse at it's worst.. forgive me for a Debbie downer
That is so terrible and I'm sorry for your loss. I hope I'm not being insensitive but I think a better way of remembering your relative is to celebrate the life that you have. I don't know her but I'm sure she was a loving person, and I think she would agree with me.
Thank you and yes she was very loving as well as talented... she sang with some local bands on weekends... I do celebrate but in a much lower key kinds of way...
Wow, she sounds really cool. I couldn't carry a tune in a bucket. I sing, but nobody really wants to hear me.
Well ... since Friday was my birthday ... hubby and I went out to a movie (Into theWoods) and dinner afterwards, picked up a bottle wine and a yummy but little cake and took them home. We don't buy gifts for each other anymore because we have so much 'stuff' it would be sort of silly and buying something we need which we would buy anyway is no fun
Sounds like a wonderful time. Happy Birthday.
I know several people for whom birthdays are hard - my grandmother passed away on my birthday, and it's only a couple weeks after Christmas, usually when school was just starting up again - so I get it, and my heart goes out to those of you who struggle with celebrating.
In our family, my husband is lucky enough to be able to schedule each of our birthdays off work, and typically we go out to breakfast, then come home and spend the day playing board games, before dinner and a movie. The kids get parties with their friends every couple of years, and sometimes our family dinners have extra friends coming with us, but that varies. Really, the heart of it is that my husband takes off work (and the kids are home anyway since we homeschool) so we are always together all day on each of our birthdays. That's the nicest part.
all those we lose either family or friend are truly special people.. because they brightened our world for a time... how blessed we were to have them
We always go out together as a family for a special meal. The venue is picked by the birthday person.
When I was younger, it was trouble trying to get people to come out for a party because of winter weather. In high school, they didn't want to come because my parents wouldn't stay up late for the New Year and wouldn't let anyone drink. And our family has never been really close, so I got used to not really having much of a party beyond immediate family....but now that I'm an adult, I just go to some friend's New Year's party and bring a birthday cake to be eaten early in the evening. I consider their gift to me is the fact that I don't have to handle prep or cleanup and can just grab a cake and enjoy myself with friends! This year was a roast ham dinner, followed by game night with about 10 people there.
Having your birthday on a holiday must be hard. Mom's birthday is the 16th of December and though it's not on a holiday it's close enough that while growing up they got combined. When we were growing up Dad always made sure she had a proper birthday. Christmas never went up until after we celebrated her birthday. We still do this .. my sister lives out of town and will give me Mom's birthday gift at Thanksgiving so that I can give it to her on her birthday. I'm glad you have found a way to celebrate your birthday with people you love.
We usually do something fun as a family like a museum. I sometimes bake myself a cake, lol.
That sounds like fun. I also bake cakes for our birthdays. My husband and son want a pineapple upside down cake with extra love - meaning extra pineapple. I usually go for a yellow cake with chocolate frosting.
I guess it depends year to year sometimes I go on a little shopping trip and other years it's low key. I hope to go junking this year with my sisters!
My mum does her special cakes (she's an excelent cake maker) and we eat it with the family and take some photos, sometimes we party with close friends. My mom cares a lot about this things
I haven't done anything really big for my birthday since I was 18, that was the last time I had a "party". Every other year has consisted of special homecooked meals or the rare dinner out, nothing really big and very rarely a cake or anything. Last year for my 25th I happened to be in Las Vegas for an unrelated occasion and myself/husband/group of best friends ended up going out to dinner at The Hard Rock Cafe. It was really tasty and I even saw the lead singer of Imagine Dragons so that was really cool! My birthday is next month and I don't think I'm doing anything spectacular this year.
My birthday sometimes gets forgotten because it is so close to Thanksgiving if not ON that day. I don't mind because I love Thanksgiving and everything it represents. I love what my sister-in-law does on her birthday. She makes (or buys) a huge cake and goes to everyone else's houses and shares her cake. No one forgets her birthday!!
Even if your birthday is on a holiday, it should still be celebrated even if it is in a small way. If nothing else you can add a birthday cake to the desserts table at Thanksgiving dinner. It sounds like your sister-in-law has decided to share the love and have one great big traveling party. I bet she has a great time visiting with everyone along the way. I'm going to show my nerd side now because it reminds me of the Hobbit tradition of giving away gifts on your birthday instead of receiving them.
Last year my mom took me out to lunch for my birthday. But we celebrated a few days earlier because she had to work on my birthday. But several months before my birthday I actually started thinking about where I wanted to go. It didn't take me long to settle on going to one of the restaurants that is owned by my favorite chef, Bobby Flay. We went to The Burger Palace here in Las Vegas, NV. My mom and my two girls were there to help me celebrate. Though the beginning of the day wasn't so great...only because my mom decided to mistreat me...but the lunch turned out perfect and I got to have all I wanted.
we usually go out for a late luch or early dinner and then go home and watch whatever the birthday person wants for the night.
we pick a saturday and have a party for all the family and friends who have a birthday that month.
nothing fancy, mabye dinner out.