Is/Was your birthday ever....

[azure]

Mine is on Cinco di Mayo, it's a fun day to have!

[clickerish]

In the scope of things, it seems like a silly preoccupation. Also, if Aunt Sally won't give two toys to a kid, I would totally call Aunt Sally out. My mother was a Christmas baby. She had a lot of siblings so they started to celebrate on her half birthday, but now she is the only person I know who gets to celebrate her birthday every year with everyone since they have to be together for Christmas. It seems fair.

I was born right by Columbus Day...it's traumatic. Except not really because I didn't grow up in the US so avoided the holiday shenanigans. And if my kids go to school that dares to celebrate the day, I will yank my kid out so fast, they won't know what happened!

[tricolore]

My birthday is the first day of the US gov't's fiscal year (Happy New Year to me-- oct 1st)-- it's also Julie Andrews, Jimmy Carter, and William Requisist's bday... so far I'm coping.

My H's bday is September 11th (and yes we were living in DC in '01). People in the States sometimes comment with an, "I'm sorry", which is really odd since he was born in '68. I mean, obviously, 9/11/01 was a terribly sad day for those directly effected and a somber day for those of us less directly impacted. We don't do garish or offensive bday celebrations (nor did we that night), but we do usually have a meal out and/or do normal things. Just seems weird to be "sorry" about his being born 33yrs before.

My dog's birthday is March 15th and she's Italian. Happily, we all had a few centuries to adjust to the Ides, so people rarely acknowledge it.

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I am in mid Oct so no biggie for me. DS was born on 20 December. We keep his birthday and Christmas seperatte in that he gets his presents wrapped in seperate paper and they are non-related, he has a party and Santa brings him a present on Christmas. We do have a celebration week between his birthday and Christmas too, DH takes leave and we go out and do fun things.

(He gets thrown dead with presents in December because I shop throughout the year and in October onr of our big supermarkets do a half price toy sale, I spend around £100 easily at that sale. This year he is getting the Innotab for his birthday, so I have already bought 3 games to go with it. For his Christmas stocking we are filling with lego and already have 10 different sets, plus some cars and a new toothbrush (he gets a new fun toothbrush in his stocking every year). I still need to figure out his Christmas present from us and his Santa gift. I usually decide his Santa's gift and then make him think he thought it up, lol)

[mrsukyankee]

My birthday is on Dec. 26th and yes, my birthday got lost in the whole Christmas celebrations - I would get one pressie for both, I would never be able to have a party on my birthday with my friends cause they would be with family, and for my 30th I celebrated alone cause no one was around. So, yeah, it was over-shadowed. BUT...it's something that didn't scar me for life, I grew up not thinking of my birthday as the 'need to be a huge deal' which I think was kinda good and now I ask for dual pressies, which is nice cause I can get bigger things.

[EllieT]

My birthday is Jan 4 (though it could have been worse - I was due on Dec 27) and to be honest I've always disliked it. Everyone seems to be tired of holidays and celebrations by then.
My parents always tried to make it special and different from Christmas - never wrapped birthday gifts in Xmas paper, no combined presents but rather two separate events and so on. Birthday parties as a kid did usually involve dancing around the Christmas three though and cookies and buns were traditional xmas cookies. (mom hates to bake so she would only bake once every year in December and those cookies would last until my dads birthday in early Feb, then no more cookies until Dec)
I think what I disliked most as a kid was that within less than two weeks 'everything' happened and then nothing for like a year. It also kinda sucked that I would always have to wait to use my big gifts (bicycles and such) since they weren't really apropriate for winter in Sweden.

Now as a grown up I wouldn't say I spend a lot of time thinking about this. However it still is kinda boring how everything happens so close. And by now I sort of struggle to come up with things to ask for.
The one thing I always liked about my birthday was that I never had to spend it in school and that I always got to spend it with my family (school doesn't start up again until Jan 7 or so. My dad is a teacher so he always had the day off)

Asfar as planning of kids/ttc I would go as far as avoiding ttc a Dec-Jan baby initially. At the same time, both my brother and SIL and FI's brother and SIL have struggled with infertility for years so I realize planning for a baby is not that easy. So yeah, I wouldn't start ttc in April or May but if we were still trying a year later I wouldn't hold off just to avoid a Dec birthday. In fact, FI's brother and SIL is finally pregnant after 5 yrs of trying and she is due the week before Christmas and we are so looking forward to it!

[idris]

My daughter's b-day is usually during Columbus Day weekend. It works out nicely because family can come see us then. My son's is the day before St. Patrick's Day. Haven't noticed any overlap. My youngest is a month following Christmas. There are no issues. My b-day is the day after Halloween. I have always kind of liked it.