https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 17 May 2026 01:34:30 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays/page/2#post-2537201 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 15:09:27 +0000 rattles 2537201@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My brothers and I all have holiday(ish) birthdays - Valentine's Day, Easter (1st birthday and a few since) and New Years Eve. </p> <p>As a teen and young adult, I didn't like it because my friends were busy or cranky that they weren't, and we couldn't get a big table at a restaurant without an overpriced set menu, so we usually ended up at places like Indian buffets instead. I didn't care as a kid though, and now with a family, I like it. Everyone remembers my birthday, and I have sweet little heart shaped jewelry, ornaments and whatnot that family members have gifted over the years with my birthday in mind. </p> <p>My kids have November and December birthdays, but I don't think that's a big deal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays/page/2#post-2537170 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 14:42:01 +0000 WinterBee 2537170@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Neither my husband nor I do, but our first baby is due at Christmas, so I find everyone's answers very interesting and I'm learning what not to do for baby! haha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays/page/2#post-2537105 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 13:48:59 +0000 Raindrop 2537105@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@regberadaisy: Cinco de Mayo!! It's a big deal here! Well at least there was always a big party happening! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays/page/2#post-2537038 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 13:18:14 +0000 regberadaisy 2537038@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well, my birthday is May 5 so I've always shared it with all of Mexico. :P my DD1's bday is 4/28 and these days her birthdays is definitely a way bigger deal than mine! And of course right after is Mother's Day. I don't really mind or care TBH. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays/page/2#post-2537032 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 13:16:06 +0000 cnidaria 2537032@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>#1 for us is due in October... right between Thanksgiving and Hallowe'en. I'm kind of hoping s/he will show up right in the middle and manage to avoid them both! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays/page/2#post-2536928 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 12:18:50 +0000 Raindrop 2536928@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PawPrints: LOL! Sounds like you had an awesome mom!! *high five for another may near mother's day bday* Hehe. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays/page/2#post-2536866 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 11:08:02 +0000 PawPrints 2536866@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh that's interesting, my birthday is also really close to (and sometimes on) Mother's Day and I have zero memory of conflict or overshadowing when I was growing up. I guess my mom just made a really big deal out of my birthday whereas Mother's Day was pretty clearly a smaller event. </p> <p>Now that I am a mother, I am looking forward to years of celebrating a double holiday weekend for the two together :) It's ALL ABOUT ME :D </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays/page/2#post-2536852 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 11:00:57 +0000 MrsLonghorn 2536852@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This year, my birthday is on Father's Day. It will be DH's 2nd father's day (DS will be 21 months) Knowing DH, he will want to ignore father's day entirely and focus exclusively on my birhtday....but knowing my mother, we will be expected to have a big 'fathers day' dinner with them to celebrate my dad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays/page/2#post-2536833 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:42:29 +0000 Raindrop 2536833@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pumuckl: @looch: very interesting about August!! @looch: I don't think it is weird. I actually don't like getting attention for my birthday ... Not sure if it is because my parents never made a big deal about it or it is just my personality but I also don't post it on Facebook (I don't use Facebook anymore but my abandon account doesn't have my birthday) so most of my friends don't actually know my birthday. Ha! Self filling prophecy.</p> <p>@Adira: Ah interesting you went from disliking it to liking it!!! That is cool. :)</p> <p>@petitenoisette: LOL!! Flag day is legit! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays/page/2#post-2536817 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:33:57 +0000 yin 2536817@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO1's birthday falls near Easter sometimes, and LO2's birthday is 3 days after Halloween. It's actually nice to have a birthday near Easter because we usually get together with DH's family and can celebrate both. It's a little hectic for LO2 because I have to prepare for Halloween and then take everything down to get a birthday celebration in place. I treat the two completely separate though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays/page/2#post-2536778 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:06:27 +0000 petitenoisette 2536778@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LindsayLou: 4th of July is basically my favorite holiday, I would LOVE to have my bday/LOs then!! So fun! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays/page/2#post-2536775 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 10:02:48 +0000 petitenoisette 2536775@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My birthday is June 14th which I'm sure all of you know as flag day! So it is technically a holiday, bot not really, so I always found it sort of fun :) Clearly didn't overshadow the momentous occasion of my birth! :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays/page/2#post-2536765 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:54:46 +0000 Adira 2536765@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My birthday is New Year's Day.</p> <p>Growing up, I both liked and hating having a birthday on a holiday. I liked that I never had school, but I also hated that I never got to celebrate my birthday at school. We'd always have little parties for kids on their birthday, and since mine was a holiday, I never got that. And no one would wish me happy birthday before/after either, so it felt largely forgotten.</p> <p>In college and after (pre-kids), I also both liked and hated it. I like that I never have to work on my birthday. But having a NYD birthday SUCKS when it comes to partying with your friends. Everyone's hung over from NYE and no one wants to get together with you. And on my 21st birthday, all the bars were closed.</p> <p>Now that I have kids, I don't mind it anymore. No one has to work/go to school so the whole family is together for my birthday. And most of my friends have kids, so they aren't partying as much either, so getting together for brunch with our kids is totally doable. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays/page/2#post-2536760 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:51:38 +0000 BKCaribBaby 2536760@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH's birthday is very close to Christmas, and he really dislikes it. His family did a good job of separating birthday parties and Christmas, but he's always felt like it was overshadowed. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays/page/2#post-2536751 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:44:22 +0000 meganmp 2536751@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Groundhogs day. Since it's a ridiculous holiday, it never really bothered me! :) My kids were born two days before Thanksgiving, so that might get a bit interesting for them as they get older. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays/page/2#post-2536643 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 07:36:45 +0000 looch 2536643@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My birthday is one of those things that I never made a big deal over, even as a kid. It's in August, and as kid, no one was ever around that time of year, lol. I had a few parties, but nothing crazy. Now, I don't even publish my birthday on FB, I don't want anyone to make a big deal about it and I go about my day as normal.</p> <p>Is that weird? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays/page/2#post-2536638 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 07:30:28 +0000 MOMTOLITTLEB 2536638@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My birthday isn't near a holiday at all but my son's is between Thanksgiving and Christmas. So far we've made a big deal of both of his birthdays so I think we'll keep doing that. Hopefully he won't feel overshadowed. He was actually born Thanksgiving weekend but sometimes Thanksgiving is earlier so at least it won't be every year! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays#post-2536578 Fri, 29 Apr 2016 04:13:58 +0000 Pumuckl 2536578@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Another August baby here. </p> <p>I never really liked it since everyone was always on summer break. And still to this day of all the family birthdays mine is the one that gets forgotten the most. I don't mind nowadays but it did bother me when growing up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays#post-2536537 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 23:16:47 +0000 Torchwood 2536537@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Labor Day. I was actually born on Labor Day, which always amused me as a kid because my mom went into labor on Labor Day. I loved it because I got a 3 day weekend for my birthday, but it wasn't a holiday anyone actually celebrated. We got married on Memorial Day weekend and it's worked out the same for our anniversary. DH has the extra day off! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays#post-2536507 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 22:35:23 +0000 misolee 2536507@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My birthday is 6 days before Christmas and growing up I hated it. Even my parents would give me a Christmas/Bday card and one present which I hated! (they weren't that big on bdays...) My bday cards would always read..."Merry Christmas" </p> <p>When I was in high school/college, bday would always fall during winter finals which I also hated. One time my friends in college threw me a "surprise party" on December 1st before finals got too busy. It was a surprise bc my bday wasn't for like 3 weeks </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays#post-2536477 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 21:11:32 +0000 MaisyMay 2536477@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@NorthStar: @LindsayLou: @youboots: @Raindrop: may 13th here, joining the Mother's Day party. It had never bothered me. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays#post-2536470 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 20:56:54 +0000 Corduroy 2536470@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsF: I love my Halloween birthday too. Cake + candy is a bit much but it's always a fun &amp; exciting day. When I was little I thought Trick or Treating was just for me. It's still fun for me as a mom. DH has remarked that my birthday kind of ruins Halloween for him. Too bad, I feel similarly about his mid-Feb birthday and Valentimes Day. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays#post-2536358 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:37:46 +0000 jape14 2536358@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not exactly a holiday but I got married the day before my birthday. I don't really like being the center of birthday celebrations so it works for me. Before we had LO we usually did a weekend trip somewhere. DH did promise no combined gifts (unless they are really nice) when we chose the date :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays#post-2536354 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:35:27 +0000 psw27 2536354@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Raindrop: thank you!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays#post-2536288 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 17:07:38 +0000 Baby Boy Mom 2536288@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine is right after a big holiday and yeah I couldn't stand it growing up. I always felt forgotten. :( I still don't really like it as an adult. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays#post-2536274 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:50:34 +0000 peachykeen 2536274@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My birthday is Christmas Eve, but I didn't really mind it because my parents celebrated my half birthday when I was young and no one ever forgot my birthday :happy: </p> <p>Funnily enough, my sister and my dad were each born within 3 days of Valentine's Day and my brother the day before Halloween, so I guess it was just normal in my family! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays#post-2536272 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:47:46 +0000 BSB 2536272@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine is a couple weeks before Halloween. I don't think I ever I ever felt like it was too close.</p> <p>Babies' birthday was around Labor day this year. I'm sure at some point they'll have their birthday fall on Labor day. I think it's a cool birthday to have because they might get the day off and/or a long weekend. It's not a gift giving holiday so it shouldn't be affected like a Christmas birthday. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays#post-2536253 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:29:07 +0000 Miss Ariel 2536253@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pickle: mine is 10/10, which I think is pretty awesome! :grin: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays#post-2536249 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:24:35 +0000 JenGirl 2536249@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My birthday is on Thanksgiving every 7 years (I think). I didn't mind it growing up. As a kid, I always had a separate party (sometimes just a couple friends, or family and sometimes a bigger party) but then we often did birthday cake and mini celebration when extended family got together for Thanksgiving, so it was like having extra birthday. Plus, my parents are divorced, so I have birthdays at each parent's house. My mom used to say that I had a "Hanukkah Birthday" because they lasted for 8 days! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/holidays-and-birthdays#post-2536239 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:18:19 +0000 Raindrop 2536239@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@psw27: Happy belated Birthday! :) </p>