While my birthday is not ON Christmas...three weeks before Christmas might as well be ON Christmas. Kids born in December should celebrate their birthdays in June. (No amount of redoing, retyping and repositioning this sentence would make it justify left in my preview.)
When I was growing up we would sometimes celebrate my birthday at Thanksgiving. Not on Thanksgiving but at some point during that weekend. Why? Maybe because company was still around. However, that meant my actual birthday went by unrecognized. Sucks when you're a kid. Still sort of does when you're an adult.
I think that my love of Advent calendars came from something that happened on my birthday, though. When I was 8 a package arrived from my grandmother. She made Advent calendars using red felt with a long string of red and white mint candies. They were so awesome to an 8 year old! What a concept. Besides tearing rings off of a chain at school we had never seen anything to help count down the endless days leading to Christmas. My sister and I rehung candies on that thing probably until we left for college...or the felt simply wore away.
This year I will not complain about my birthday being near Christmas because I am (or should be since I have to write this in advance) in Vienna! Visiting Christmas markets! I mean, really, this makes up for all those years of my birthday being blurred with other holidays.
21 days.
Pam
hope you have a wonderful birthday :) and how fab doing Christmas markets in Vienna....my sisters birthday was the 3rd and our wedding anniversary is on the 6th Dec ... makes for an interesting run up as inveritably forget both of them hahahahha love mouse xxxxx
ReplyDeleteWow! Have a super fun, great time making up for those birthdays!
ReplyDeleteOooh I hope you are having a lovely time at the Christmas Markets! and a very happy birthday :-)
ReplyDeleteKnow all about the Christmas birthday thingy, mine is on December 27 :-O
Wishing you a wonderful birthday, Pam--buy yourself something special at the Christmas markets!! (oh, and I feel the same way about my birthday which is 3 weeks after Christmas--kind of gets lost in the holiday mania!!)
ReplyDeleteHave a great birthday! I feel your pain, as my birthday is 3 days after Christmas!!!! Not the best time of the year for sure.
ReplyDeleteHope you find some great finds at the Christmas markets.
Pam