christmas time birthdays

Christmasshopper

I love my Christmas birthday, but 2 things really irritate me:

1) Friends who want to celebrate my birthday on another day. I don't want to celebrate my birthday either in the Summer or any other day except the actual day. When friends say, "How would you like to go out to celebrate a couple of weeks before your birthday?" I hear, "We can't be bothered with your birthday when we are thinking about Christmas!":mad:

2) Birthday presents wrapped up in Christmas paper.:mad:

Gosh... don't I sound ungrateful? I'm not, I just love my Christmas birthday.:A

loopylass

My birthday is on the 3rd of jan i hated it when i was a child because my parents always gave me a joint christmas/birthday present and i felt my sister had more as she had 2 sets of presents

My eldest son was born on the 23rd december and because of the way i felt as a child i have never bought him joint presents and neither has any of my family bought him joint presents he has never felt his missed out

When he was younger he always had a birthday party like my other children we always did his parties the weekend before the 23rd
We made a big fuss for his birthday last year as it was his 18th and he loved the fact that he had presents,meal out,baby picture in the local paper and had a photo cake(he didnt speak to us for a couple of hours though lol)and we decorated the house etc and then he had christmas with lots more presents a couple of days later

just-saving

I'm a Boxing Day Babe and as a child I would receive joint christmas/birthday presents. I would receive a present on Christmas Day (just like everyone else) but that would also double up as my birthday present too. As I had received it on Christmas Day I obviously didn't get to open it on my birthday which made my birthday feel not so special at that age, especially when I had brothers opening their presents too but would also get separate birthday presents on their Not Christmas birthdays! Then relatives etc who hadn't popped in on Christmas Day would pop in on my birthday and give out Christmas presents to everyone which kind of took the spark out of my special day.
It's still slightly sad now- i.e some friends of mine gave me my birthday card/present on the 4th Jan this year saying 'oops, sorry we forgot due to Xmas, maybe you should have a birthday later in the year like the Queen!' And yes, my present was wrapped in Christmas wrapping paper!

Don't get me wrong...Im grateful for my presents but my Christmas birthday sucks!!! <lol>

Oh well....

bray65

3KIDSNOMONEY wrote: »

Does anybody have a christmas birthday or have children who do. Does it spoil christmas/birthday having the two so close together. Does it spoil it for other children in the family. Would love to know, trying for a baby and wondering whether to wait. Thanks

hi i have a birthday on christmas eve and my niece is christmas day we both have said it didnt feel like a birthday properly would have been nice to have on just after christmas:bdaycake: I remember always getting birthday presents with christmas paper on them and one year got a card with christmas greetings daughter crossed off and birthday written in. Must have been hard up but i was grateful of anything then.

Spendless

My friend, both her children have december birthdays, 1 a few days before xmas. From her point of view, she's always disliked that some people bought a joint present for xmas and their birthday.

One year, barely anyone turned up at her youngest sons party,. It had fallen on a Saturday and was one of the few shopping days left before Christmas day.

After that, she had one last party for her boys the year after, made it a joint one, at the end of November instead.

But there's disadvantages to whenever birthdays are, my birthday is in September, and I never liked being the eldest in the class, the assumption that cos I was one of the eldest, I would also be one of the cleverest (I wasn't) and I still don't like hitting milestone birthdays (40 last year) months in advance of when my old school friends do.

ti1980

I have just seen this thread. Interesting replies.

My birthday is in the 2nd week of Jan, and when I was younger I used to hate it as I used to get the 'joint' present which was always supposedly bigger than it would have been if I had been given 2 presents. When you are young though and have no concept of money etc, it just looks like one present and not the two that you would have got if your birthday was earlier or later in the year.
I have friends that have birthdays a couple of days before Xmas and also a couple of days after and we have recalled the times when we were younger 'joint present, whats that all about?'
It doesn't matter to me now as I don't really celebrate Christmas or birthdays with presents, just nice to get a card or even just a text.
The things with December/January birthdays are that even though the parents will usually do something special to separate a birthday from Christmas, family and friends often won't/can't as they have other people to consider. In January, people are often spent up from Christmas so can't afford to go out or buy presents. At school when they are older a lot of people have exams and coursework to hand in in January so it can be hard trying to get people to celebrate it.
From personal experience it can feel quite lonely at that time, it is nice when family do things but you always want your friends to join in too and often they can't.
If I ever have children, I'm going to try so hard to avoid a Dec/Jan birthday. Even though I know what its like so I would be conscious that I need to make an extra special effort if a Dec/Jan baby happened, I would rather not have that situation in the first place.

Maisie

Becles wrote: »

We only have a September intake for school here. I didn't know some children could join at other times of the year.

In this area they now take children into reception half day in January and after Easter. Depending when their birthday is. The older ones would have started in the previous September and staying for the whole day by the time the others start.

Your new baby will probably start school after Easter as I think it is now general across the country that schools have several input dates.

Becles

It's still just one September intake at our primary school, and they all do full days.

beejay_the_bear

it will be my dd 1st birthday on 29 th december, she was due boxing day, i can't see it been a problem, probably have to be more organised this year!!! as she will have her birthday celebrated the same as her 2 brothers,

onredbull

I think that childrens birthdays that are around christmas time start off ok ish for their 1st and/or 2nd years birthday & party.

I remember a few didnt/couldnt make it to my son's 1st birthday party which although it was aimed at the children (babys&toddlers) it soon ended up being more for the parents who kept nipping down shop to buy more booze and eventually turned into adults party.

His 2nd party - I found at least half of friends who were invited didnt/couldnt come, but the thing that is annoying :mad: is the people who say they are coming and then let you know on the day or day before they cant come.

What really !!!!!!£$ me off :mad:is those that say they are coming and dont let you know and dont turn up. :mad:

I think it will probably get worse during the school years as kids are into the christmas and santa thing ect. I will have to start arranging his birthday in the summer.

At least then i can arrange something outside as living in a small 1st floor flat with no garden is the worst place to have a babys/toddlers/childrens party in December a few days before christmas - from my experience !!



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