Christmas Birthday blog

haha my best friend's birthday is on Christmas day. I always make sure to send her a BIRTHDAY card and 2 presents, one wrapped in normal wrapping paper and the other in Christmas paper. Her parents never did anything special for her accept have cake with dinner.

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My son's b-day is Christmas Eve, so far we just celebrate early, and delineate with Christmas vs b-day paper. In fact, my parents gave him his presents and did a cake for him (and me- my birthday is the 10th) last night. But he is only turning 3, as he gets older I think we might celebrate his half birthday- June 24th is a much better time for a kids birthday party. Thanks so much for sharing this, new ideas are always welcome.

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My birthday is Dec. 28. When I was a kid, we always celebrated Christmas with extended family, and they brought birthday presents for me. So we'd do Christmas presents before dinner, and dessert always included a special birthday cake (addressed to me and my uncle, who shares my b'day) and presents from them. My family always held their presents until my actual day.

As for kid-parties, I was always able to bring stuff to school before or after Christmas break to celebrate with my class (this was back in the day when homemade cupcakes and celebrating with the class were acceptable).

My parents always made a point to host a kid-party for me, and more than once, it was an ice-skating or sledding party! Joy! No wonder I love winter so much!

So, Rachel... My advice to you (and other parents of Christmas Babies) is - celebrate your little one's actual birthday, don't trade for Summer. Perhaps you'll need to host a party for him on the 23rd or on the 26th... but that will just be stretching out the joy for him, rather than completely changing the whole season. You can have *just* as much fun in winter as you can in summer, if you use a little imagination - kids love sledding, skating, and building snowmen, as well as the hot chocolate that follows. Don't take this special time away from him just because the timing is a little inconvenient.

Just remember to keep birthday and Christmas separate - easy for you, more difficult for relatives. Even if relatives want to celebrate his birthday ON Christmas, that's ok - but make sure they follow the rules laid out in the post... different wrapping paper, acutal birthday cake, no opening b'day gifts with the Christmas loot, no "combining" presents, unless it's something big/special, etc.

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What an article for me! I've always had "hard" feelings for my birthday. It's the 27th and unlike LS, I never did anything special for my day. We either traveled to Manitoba or Buffalo, NY for Christmas so my b-day was always celebrated in the car either listening to my parents fight or arguing with my brother. I got everything all at once and very rarely anything on my b-day. My parents weren't bad or anything but I think they felt overwhelmed. I would get a "big" gift combined but then in March, my brother would get the same thing. He still feels bad for this. I never had pretty b-day paper of got cards. Everything was Christmas paper and those little tag things. I don't mean this as a boo hoo to me but I did really feel cheated.

I love Christmas but all signs of it are out of my house the 26th and my husband has been WONDERFUL for celebrating it so he has taught my boys to as well. I'm very lucky now on my day and get pretty paper and nice cards. Funny thing.....I always get a nice gift from my brother. He says he's trying to make up for things that happened when we were kids. I've more than made up for it.

I really agree with LS. Don't try and change your childs b-day. It's their day. Just make it special and don't combine gifts. Make it their day and go skating and have a hot dog roast or something. LS is right, there are a lot of fun things to do in the winter.

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Joy.... Happy Birthday, a little early! (cause I know I probably won't be online at ALL that week) I will think of you on Your Day, and send you happy thoughts.

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Thanks LS. Happy Birthday to you too. Ya right, I won't be online!!! LOL, that's funny!

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I am one of those rare people who does not enjoy Christmas and all the stress/pageantry that comes along with it, yet somehow the universe sent me a child born on December 24. The way I have worked it out for my daughter: we have her birthday party on the Sunday before the 24th, and there are only birthday or generic winter decorations at our house. Immediate family comes over to celebrate her birthday on the 24th during the day. All Christmas decorations, gifts, and celebrations occur at "grandma's house" on the 25th. This way she gets two distinct celebrations, and I am spared the mental torture of having red and green everything at our house.

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My brother was lucky to be born on Christmas Eve. My parents first son after 5 daughters. A pretty good christmas present. My parents always celebrated our birthdays on THE DAY and my brother was no different. On his birthday we had the usual cake and ice cream and he opened his birhtday present..which was always a really cool gift. We knew it was Christmas Eve but it was always Bill's Birthday even today after 50 years.

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