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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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