My daughter’s second birthday is tomorrow. As a parent who r-e-a-l-l-y was convinced she wasn’t ovulating the day we conceived, may I express my deepest sympathy?
Please don’t hate those of us who had December babies. We’re very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very sorry.
We celebrate my daughter’s half birthday in June.
Hmmm…Isn’t it funny how all these December babes seem to be have a conception date a wee close to St. Patrick’s Day? :dubious: 
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I think there may be something in that green beer besides food coloring…I meself have 4 siblings born in the Decemeber with my Irish mom and Italian pops. One in October…musta been a good Valentines Day gift that year 
Another New Year’s baby here. I can sympathize with the present situation, and the non party thing. It used to bother me when I was a kid, but we grew up dirt poor, and I really understood why. As an adult, I prefer to celebrate New Year’s Eve, and then maybe do something low key and enjoyable on New Year’s Day, or the week after. Works well for me. 
I’ll send you a birthday card! My birthday is on New Year’s Eve too! And one other Doper, twickster, is a NYE baby as well. She and I also were born not just on the same day, but the same date! We’re exactly the same age(three days younger than Denzel Washington! )
If you really want a card, shoot me your snail mail address in an email.
I’ll send you one if you send me one! My birthday’s the same day and I always got combo gifts . My brother’s birthday is seven days after mine and that never happened to him. :mad: We started celebrating all the winter birthdays in the summer as a half birthday party, the little kids especially love it.
Usually for my birthday we go out for a nice dinner (which we would do even if it wasn’t my birthday :rolleyes: . ) This year we’re having a big sleep over at our house with lots of appetizers and playing video games.
Why you ungrateful little shit! I’ll show you! I’m selling your presents on eBay!
My brother’s birthday is December 26th. I always made the effort to make sure he had a specific birthday gift wrapped in non-xmas paper. Once I had to wrap it in a brown paper grocery bag and draw designs on the paper in colored marker, but my mom had always made a big deal about making sure his birthday didn’t get lost in the shuffle. (She did do a few things right.) He did get short-changed in the birthday party department, though.
I wish he were here now for me to give him a birthday gift. He’s in Baghdad on the back of a Humvee.
Misery loves…Birthday Cards!
Kat
14655 NE 166th St
Woodinville, WA
98072
Just do it…or something like that :smack:
You have my sympathies, Lord Ashtar. I’ll be 30 on the 28th, and most of the time it feels like an afterthought.
Plus, I got lumbered with the name Holly (I only started liking it about 5 years ago), and I’m usually serenaded with Christmas songs containing my name. :rolleyes: It was fun when I was a kid… Now, I just want to strangle the dimwits who do that.
Thanks for the birthday wishes, all. Nice to know I’m not the only one whose birthday sucks diseased elephant testicles.
My son’s birthday is New Year’s Eve. He’s three on Friday. We’re having a seperate birthday party and intend to do that throughout his childhood. New Year’s Eve birthday dopers, is that good enough? Or would it be better to have it later? Happy birthday to all of you, BTW.
My mom’s b-day is NYE.
It blows. Its so hard to take her out to dinner or throw her a party or anything. The last big party we planned had to be canceled due to weather.
My birthday is July 3, but at least Independence Day isn’t a gift giving holiday.
Mine’s today too. My kids have always remembered, but they’re tired from Christmas and all the stuff leading up to it. Wonder if a mod or someone higher up has ever compared birthdays here–in the database–in a search for birthday twins. Wouldn’t it be fun to find someone else born not only on the same date but in the same year? And around the same time of day?
In college, I knew someone whose birthday was within a couple days of Christmas. Her parents nearly gave her the worst present ever with her name, but changed their minds. Originally, they were going to give her a first name of Mary and a middle name of Chris. Their surname was Maus.
A disproportionate number of my patients (I’m a psychologist) were born on the 26th. Just sayin’…
I don’t have any Christmas Eve’rs, though, so you’re probably home free!
Happy Birthday wishes to you, Lord Ashtar, and to all other Christmas birthday Dopers as well! (I gotta know - what’s the name? Jesus? Nick? I can think of lots of Christmas names for girls, but not that many for guys).
Oy do I feel the holiday birthday pain! My birthday is the 17th and while I have it a little easier than the 24,25 and 31 babies, it still sucks. My birthday ALWAYS falls in finals week. When I was in high school it was always the day before winter vacation began so everyone was bringing everyone else gifts, so people always forgot about my birthday.
The gift thing doesn’t bother me as much as it used to since I’ve gotten older but I hate hate hate when people complain to me (as if I had anything whatsoever to do with the planning!) about the timing of my birthday because it’s such a damned burden to them. I usually tell them to write a formal letter of complaint to my mother.
This was the first year I didn’t even get a cake. My family is really into the birthday thing so they always made sure I had a cake (even if it was at Christmas), but this year it appears as if no one cared enough to bother. Apparently 27 is too old for a birthday celebration. 
I hear you, Lord Ashtar. My birthday is the 24th also (although I was due March 1!) I turned 38 this year. 38 sucks.
At least, growing up, my parents made sure that Dec. 24 was MY day. My family didn’t unwrap Christmas presents on Christmas Eve. I never got to have a party with friends from school (at least, not on my birthday, and I only remember having one such party anyway) and I don’t get to party even now. Everything closes up early on Christmas Eve. But yeah, I got my share of presents with a tag that read ‘Merry Christmas, Happy Birthday’ on them.
This year I got bewildering birthday presents. My mother, who should know better, bought me porcelain fairy dolls to decorate my house. Except I don’t decorate with fairies, and I don’t like dust-collectors. But she gave 3 of my children porcelain baby dollies this year for Christmas (which were age-inappropriate), so I think it was the theme. My husband, bless his heart, bought me a t-shirt from my favorite local hamburger joint, Dick’s Hamburgers. But it’s bright orange, the only color I can’t wear. I’m still waiting to see if they’ll have mercy on me and let me exchange it for a white one with blue sleeves they also sell.
I think people who ordinarily wouldn’t know what to get for you, are even under more pressure when it comes to a Christmas birthday. They don’t know what to buy for ONE present, and now they feel they have to buy TWO?
Next year I think I’ll tell people that I’d really just like a nice phone call. Not sure how to break that to mom.
Just out of curiousity:
I can see why combination presents would be a drag if the giver used it as an excuse to be cheap. But what if it was a really really NICE gift?
Let’s say you’re an adult and your parents, under normal circumstances, would spend $50 on your present for your birthday and Christmas.
Would you rather get two $50 presents, one for Christmas and one for your birthday, or would you rather get one $150 present?
If you go with the $150 present, would you want it in birthday or Christmas paper?
My first name is Shane, my middle name is Nicolas. Say it fast enough and it sounds like St. Nicolas.
Cute, huh?
Solstice baby, here…
I loves me my best friends and my siblings, I do. They always make an effort to NOT wrap my presents in Christmas paper or use a Christmas card to write “Happy Birthday” in. Or give me a two in one present. sigh
Until I got to know my best friends, I’d given up completely on any kind of marking of the occasion other than going out for dinner with the family and having a small present or two.