christmas time birthdays

Maisie

Don't forget to work out dates for the school year too.

Children born in August are in the same year as children born in the previous September.(Cut off date for the year is August 31). So a whole year younger and get less schooling.

onredbull

[QUOTE=Ettenna;4621290]
From the age of about 7 we started having her birthday party in July, just before the end of school year with presents and cards from her friends. We call this her half birthday!!
A difficult thing about late in the year birthdays is that an outing or trip is much more restricted as a lot of places are shut for the winter.
HTH.[/QUOTE]

ariba10 "Our daughter ( a mother herself now) was born on the 21st December and we used to give her a half birthday on 21 June so that she did not feel that her proper birthday was swamped."

Hiya
I was just wondering :think: as to how you explain having a "half birthday" as i am in similar position with my son being born 15th december and i have found it very difficult and heart breaking when trying to organise something for my son's birthday during december.

It seems that most people are either busy with going to or organising their xmas parties _party_or xmas :xmastree: shopping. Some people are hungover/poorly from works parties_party_ the night before. People dont have the money ect.

I understand that xmas :xmastree: is a stressful time for all of us but so can the rest of the year.

Last Dec my son:kisses: was 4 years old and we (my son and i) had a nice time having our own little pic-nic in our front room for his birthday:bdaycake: - his idea.
Everyone (friends) was too busy throughout all of december and january.

We then had a small family tea :bdaycake:at my mum & dads house the day before christmas:xmastree: as they live far away.

I always ensure that i buy a card and pressie - however small/cheap even if i am skint, its the thought that counts.

My son probably does not fully understand but he did mention a few times about what he wanted to do for his birthday or where he would like to go and it broke my heart :sad: on many evenings.

I dont mean to sound ungrateful i just feel its polite and commen curtisy especially within a good group of friends that you see regulary.

:think:
Anyway if he is 4 now and will be 5 in dec 2007,
What would i say to people/friends If i were to organise a party _party_in june/july,
Do i tell everyone on invites that he is 4 years old or 5 years old ?

Thanks.

UKTigerlily

Mines 22nd & I love it!

Poppy9

I'm a Xmas baby (27/12), share this day with my niece, have another niece on 18th, nephew on 8th, OH on 9th so a pretty full on month. It's expensive buying all the birthday presents as well as Xmas but I don't mind having a Xmas birthday.

newmum1

Ettenna wrote: »

My middle daughters birthday is Christmas Day (was due on 17th). She is now 13.

We always intended to have her party in June (when she was christened) but we had another girl whose birthday is in June! With the eldest having her birthday being in May we thought that June for her party would be a bit difficult.

From the age of about 7 we started having her birthday party in July, just before the end of school year with presents and cards from her friends. We call this her half birthday!!

On Christmas Day itself we open some Christmas presents in the morning, then at 1203 (the time she was born) we start her birthday. She opens her family presents and cards. That usually lasts about an hour or so. Tea in the evening is a birthday tea, with birthday cake, etc.

She does sometimes get a bit miffed about having to wait a year and then having Christmas and birthday at the same time but really she gets to have two special days.

My birthday is 15th Dec and when I was younger my Christmas and birthday presents were amalgamated into one larger present (which most of the time it wasn't). We always said that DD birthday and Christmas presents would always be seperate.

A difficult thing about late in the year birthdays is that an outing or trip is much more restricted as a lot of places are shut for the winter.

HTH.

Yeah mines the 15th too, Im not all that keen on it cause i can never have a party cause everyone usually has xmas do's, if i go out for a meal its generally turkey, all my friends are skint and most people forget cause they get caught up in the festivities, if i were you i personally would wait, my dd is born in june (19th) and i think it is fab cause its hot, summer and she can have outdoor parties and stuff.

onredbull

Poppy9 wrote: »

I'm a Xmas baby (27/12), share this day with my niece, have another niece on 18th, nephew on 8th, OH on 9th so a pretty full on month. It's expensive buying all the birthday presents as well as Xmas but I don't mind having a Xmas birthday.

I agree that December is my worst financial month - with son's birthday on 15th December - sharing this day with my mum = 2 birthdays on 15th.

Although i am lucky as i always remind my mum of what she said to me when my son was born - those sweet little words.....something along the lines of

"This is the best birthday presant i could ever have - my 1st and only grandson being born on my birthday who will be the perfect present each and every year"

But i have and always do get her a little something.

My dads is on 6th december.
My nans used to be on 14 december.

Becles

Maisie wrote: »

Children born in August are in the same year as children born in the previous September.(Cut off date for the year is August 31). So a whole year younger and get less schooling.

How do you get less schooling if you are born in August?

I was born in August, so one of the youngest in my year, but attended school for the same length of time as everyone else. I left school with 9 GCSE's (3 A's, 4 B's and 2 C's) a higher maths certificate and a City and Guilds, so being born in August never did me any harm.

Broken_hearted

My youngest son was born in december, his first birthday party was very poorly attended. So we now celebrate his birthday in November and its much better all round.

MrsTinks

I'm a 30th of November and living fairly far from a lot of my family for a lot of my life I suffered greatly from the "combined present" syndrome. Either I'd have a very poor selection on my birthday or at christmas and it means that even now my birthday is really unimportant to me. Try as my mum did there was only so much she could do about making up for everyone else not sending presents and only getting a bunch of cards saying "you'll get your present when we see you at x-mas" - My birthday to this day usually consist of a card from my ex's sister and family, one from work and 2 from my OH and presents from him. That's it. My dad sends money, my grand parents send money and my mum will give me a present next time I visit...
I don't "do" celebrations for my birthday, I want it to pass as un-noticed as possible with just me and OH for dinner out and lots of snuggling. Last year was the first time we went out for a "birthday dinner" with 6 friends - and OH went down on one knee to propose to me and wanted it to be very special
If you CAN then try to avoid a Christmas baby

renowen

i was wondering this myself

My youngest was born 2nd December last year so hopefully its not to near as to addect her day - I know my neighbour who has twins whose birthday is a week before xmas doesnt put up decs till day after their birthday/party (whichever is last) and she puts a big X on their birthday on their advent calenders so they are counting down to that as well as christmas