When I was growing up my my mom did her best to make birthdays special. We didn't have parties but we did have a special meal and cake (cheesecake for me:)!) Although, she did throw me a surprise birthday party when I turn 18!
As an adult, I have never lived near all my family at one time. So when we were first married and we would get cards throughout the whole week leading up to our birthday we would celebrate with every card (okay with every card that had money in it!)
Out of that has come a tradition we have maintained with our children. If you birthday is on a weekend, you have a birthday weekend, if it's the middle of the week you get a week! So throughout the week/weekend you get to hear "Happy day before your birthday" "Happy Birthday" "Happy Day after your birthday!" Along with the accolades, comes the special stuff like, getting to pick what we have for dinner, or where we eat out to celebrate the birthday, we usually do birthday pies instead of cake, sometimes it's cup cakes. But it's all about the person who is having a birthday. We even get to go shopping with our birthday money!
I went shopping a lone. While Mr. T was at work and the kids were at school.
N and I went to our favorite thrift store and got her loads of clothes!
Mr. T and I actually got out for a little while on Sunday and went shopping for him.
He bought a book online before we left and a new game. It's a trivia game that has betting involved! It's a perfect combination for us! He even got us an ice cream treat! We hadn't had DQ in a long time. I think he enjoyed his weekend and I look forward to Little C's coming up in August. I know that he anticipates his so much more with seeing me, N, and C have ours first!
Anyway, birthday's are fun, I hope to have a lot more of them in the future!
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Betting and trivia?
I see your 50 and raise you 100 that I know the name of Custer's horse. Of course, I'd lose that 150, but whatcha gonna do.
Is the trivia game like Jeopardy? I have a feeling that Dust would be pretty good at a game like that.
I think it is fun to have birthday weeks and weekends. I usually try to milk my birthday for all its worth and extend it as long as possible.
The game is called OddsR. It is statistical questions like....
A person has a 1 and 47,000 chance of winning the lottery. The odds for a male over the age of 45 dying in the next 24 hrs are...
a. 1 in 20,000
b. 1 in 7,500
c. 1 in 3,000
(These odds are not a direct quote from the question, although it was considerably lower then winning the lottery.)
The betting comes in to play after the question is read. You have to bet that you'll get it right while everyone else places various amounts of bets on weather you will get it right or wrong. You have a 1 in 3 chance of getting right even if you guess. It's fun.
I won one round and Chad won the next. Let us know if any of you would like to try it out and we'll get together! ***shameless attempt to see if anyone wants to get together!***
... (-5)points for mentioning my real name; and this one isn't even a middle name.
To be specific, I didn't just "win" - I kicked heiney.
(Blog name withheld to protect the innocent .. and the guilty)
I had to share my B-day week/weekend with my sister whose B-day was 5 days before mine. On top of that, Christmas was only two weeks later.
Talk about learning the "better to give than receive" concept...
Not to mention that B-day presents came in red/green paper! LOL!
I seem to recall kicking butt too. I believe yours to be exact anonymous.
Yes, I too like to have the extende birthday week. One with Kerry, one with my folks, maybe one with LL... I know some people say as they get older they don't really do birthdays. Hopefully I'm not immature but at (age withheld) I still want presents and love picking what's for dinner!
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