The Best Month to Be Born....I thought
There was a time that I thought I had it made. Dont' get me wrong...I still do for the most part. I thought this for many reasons, but one was that my birthday fell in the month of May. What a perfect scenario for a kid. Christmas obviously comes in Winter so you received all your new winter gear then and when May rolled around it was just in time to get the stuff you needed for summer right before it kicked off. I no longer carry this perspective, but let me tangent before I reveal why.
I always felt sorry for the kids who had birthdays in late December and early January. Their parents would more than likely roll the two biggest present getting days all into one. What a rip-off. Of course some parents tried to separate the two, but from my observation it was more of a formality than the truth. Why give a kid twice the presents and spend twice as much when you can conveniently collect the two celebrations together. Honestly, I don't know what I'll do if I have children and they are born in these present depriving months. I think I'll just try my best to plan pregnancy between May and December. Obviously, Christmas isn't all about the presents, but that's not what I'm getting at. Bless the poor children born between Dec. 15 and Jan. 7. Poor unfortunate souls.
Anyway, let me get back to the point. I am fortunate enough to share the same birth date as my grandmother and that has always been nice. She would give me her years when I was younger and I would thus keep her at the ripe old age of 50. It was a good deal. When I was 11 I was allowed to drink according to Grandma's deal. OK...not really. I soon discovered as I got older, however, that many of the families birthdays fall in the month of May. As you can imagine, it wasn't long before everyone started collecting them all together into ONE nice neat celebration.
I know...I sound selfish and honestly I don't care about it that much. The issue is that I'm in a growing church community now and that much of the same is occurring. It's amazing. We have consistently increased the number of birthday parties since February and now we are at May and I'm all birthdayed out. It also appears that many of the B-days will be lumped in with the church picnic. Maybe that's not a bad thing...I don't know. Honestly, I would feel guilty if I had a birthday party all for myself (not that anyone else should feel the same).
All of it is just a little crazy for me. It's tough to know what the solution is in all of this. Of course people want to celebrate your birthday with you, but when they have been to a birthday party (or two) every week for the past three months it gets a little old. I would hate to have to ask people to exclusively celebrate my birthday with me. The corporate solution is the one that appeals to my less selfish and communal side. On the other hand, it would be nice to have ones birthday feel a little special and not conveniently grouped in with 30 other people.
All of this points back to one question. What the heck is it about August that compels people to make babies. There are many explanations to this but I'll only throw one out there and let the rest of you come up with your own answers. BEACH HOUSE
posted by Gatsby24 @ 2:27 PM
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Hey, I guess I don't get any of your sympathy since my birthday is December 14! Just one day shy, eh? I never felt gipped growing up because I think my parents tried really hard to make it ok. But I am also sort of weird. I like having my birthday in December mainly because I love Christmastime. Everything looks beautiful and in a small small way it is a cheap way to have a big celebration. But I could care less about my birthday. In a way, I think we Americans make way too big of a deal about it.
I am not sure about why people conceive so much in August (I did with my first but my reasons were not beach house, sorry)---I think it is sick. August is a horrible month. You sweat so much already---why make it worse? Ack.
The good thing about August is this: If you get the worst over with then (by conceiving in hot, sweaty, gross weather), your pregnancy will be better because you will never actually have to carry a child in hot weather full-term (which is the worst). Good trade off if you ask me.
I imagine that any woman would rather carry a child through winter versus the summer months. It makes sense.
Hmm.. I have had a baby in June, July, September and October. My son (born in July) has the best deal. He gets presents every six months. My nephew (who lives with us) was born Jan.16. We have to make a point to make the time special since you are just getting settled after the holidays.
It is hard to be pregnant during the heat (and humidity) of the summer months, but it can be dangerous (due to ice/slipperyness of snow) to be very pregnant in the winter months as well. Either way, labor and delivery stink, but the babes are so worth it (especially once they sleep through the night!) ;)
My husband and I gave up our anniversary time together as our daughter was born on our first anniversary. That day is all about her for now.
B-Days are really a time to say thank you to your parents for having brought you into the world, but of course it's a two way thing.
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