It's Birthday Season!

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Ah, it’s birthday season in our home again. Yes, it always starts with our “Baby Boy”. He turned 24 last Thursday-24 on the 24th. Last night, our daughter turned 26!

Alright-when did I become a mom to people in their mid-20’s?

We don’t stop there-today is my sister-in-law’s birthday. The 6th, my brother-in-law’s. Followed by our nephew, son-in-law, his mom and my dad. Throw in Mother’s Day and a week later my sister-in-law’s anniversary and well-we’re broke, even with only giving gifts to the “kids”. Let’s face it-there are 4 right there.

I figure, since the moms involved all gave birth early-August is a very popular month for romance.

What I love is the approach my husband and I have always taken to gift giving. Our recipients seem to appreciate it as well. Since I admit to not picking out “good” gifts and think of shopping for anything but food as some sort of evil doing-we go with the good old green. We have found that this gift always fits, the color is perfect and we don’t have to here “ohhh my, what a lovely gift, but I’m not sure it fits-where can I take it back to so I can find the right size?”

We all know what that means-“Boy did you screw up again, this is hideous”, just in a kinder, gentler fashion.

This year, we gave our son a choice (since he’s got a good job) take $50 off his rent this month or off his car insurance. He took the rent-since he’s still wondering why we instated that bit of news on him.

Our daughter requested a mother daughter outing-up to the same $50 (we’re paying for her return to school-HAPPY DANCE BEING DONE WHILE TYPING HERE!). So tomorrow, we’re getting a manicure and lunch out with some window shopping. Nephew is getting cash, as is our son-in-law (or if he’d rather, we’ll pay his cell phone upgrade for the month on our family plan).

Everyone else-cards and a group party-even my dad this year. Mother’s Day is the date we’ll be doing the affair, at my parents.

Most family’s have this type of month-one co-worker at my day job said his clan’s “go broke” month is around Thanksgiving. They have 4 birthdays and 3 anniversaries.

And now, I must bid everyone a fond adieu for the week-we have to call up my sister-in-law and wish her a Happy Birthday.



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    stephanie wrote on May 2, 2008

    Happy Birthday to everyone!

    Good luck keeping up with all the dates!

    Thank goodness for calendars, otherwise i don’t know what I would do!


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    carine wrote on May 2, 2008

    how true Stephanie! I’ve got one here at my home office, one on my desk at the day job, the obiquitous one on the fridge and I’m sure the one in my mail box has the important ones listed. Oh, my American Greetings account-I have it set up to remind me of all needed cards 10 days in advance.


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    yana wrote on May 2, 2008

    We have a similar chaos in August, it seems that half of our family are Leo’s. It starts on the 1st and goes on for two weeks non stop.

    I’m usually broke by the first weekend….

    :)


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    carine wrote on May 3, 2008

    I do so relate-that’s why we said “only gifts for the kids!” Trouble is-now the kids are adults and we‘re still helping them out. LOL


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