2007
if i knew just what i had found
maura @ 8:41 pm
We are all still settling into our new schedule here. I must admit that I’m pretty tired, but that has as much to do with the dregs of home improvement fest ’07 and Gus’s birthday party this weekend as it does with my new career.
People! To the extent that these things are plannable, let me advise you to NOT have your children in December. First of all, you can’t just invite every single kid in town and go to the park like those summer birthday kids, oh no. It’s too cold to have an outdoor party, which means you’re having an indoor party, which is: a) messier, b) in your house, or c) at someplace else (which is never free). Budgetary + over-the-top-ness concerns mean that we opted for a+b this year, but since it hasn’t happened yet I can’t weigh in on whether it was a good decision.
Also, if you celebrate one of the many holidays that happen this time of year, the whole month will be just one gift-receiving opportunity after another for your December birthday kid. Followed by a loooooooong 11 month toy drought in which he gets not one new thing. Okay, even thrifty me is not THAT mean, but it is distressingly unbalanced this way.
Can you tell that I have a June birthday? Vote June, the perfect month for birthdays! Right in the middle of the year and with nice weather to boot. Except for that year when I turned 10: it hailed on my birthday. But that’s the worst thing to happen, really!
3 comments on “if i knew just what i had found”
Believe me, I feel your pain on winter birthdays. And since we are doing the kitchen this year (and have the corresponding mess throughout the house), planning for Isabella’s birthday has been difficult. (Possibly mainly because I have given up keeping the house clean until we are done with the kitchen.)
As for gifts, I have been known to put some away before they even get used since they get so many at once. Then you can pull them out during the year when you need to.
In comparison to the winter birthdays of the the rest of the family, I think that my bday in April rocks. But alas, a little late to do anything about any of it now.
Parties are helpful in February because of the coldness! And helpful that you mentioned it, too, since that one year I moved your birthday to March in my head, remember?
I might do the putting gifts away thing this year, since it is the first time we’ve *not* done no presents at his party. Plus we are getting him a video game that he reeeeeeeeeally wants, so he might zero in on that initially, anyway.
One thing’s for sure, April is definitely a good time for birthdays!
February is just OK. The bad: sometimes it’s so cold and dark you just don’t feel like celebrating. The good: sometimes it’s so cold and dark you just NEED a party!
April (2 of ’em) is pretty good. Also good baby season–not too hot, not too cold. Like a McDLT, only cuter!