Today is my beautiful daughter-in-laws birthday, so we had a quiet dinner and gifts, just the three of us and her with her daughter. They are here every day because I am keeping my granddaughter during this whole school closure/stay at home order, so no biggie that they were here an extra day of the week . Anyway, they have a tradition in their house that the birthday guy or gal gets cake to the face at some point and since my son is still overseas and could only join us through video chat, he had their daughter do it instead. I think she knew it was coming and that they'd been plotting through text message, but it was still funny and they both ended up with cake faces! So, I was just wondering... any fun birthday traditions at your house??
That's such a cute picture, Jan. I can't think of any traditions that we have like that. My mom's birthday was April 1st and my grandpa always pranked her on her birthday. He usually wrapped a bunch of boxes inside of each other and she had to unwrap all of them to get to her real gift.
Awww! That's funny and precious. Glad son had some input. Hmmm, cake in DIL's face--- a thought! JK! LOL!!!!! Growing up we had the tradition of choosing our birthday dinner meal. Being November, I always chose Chuck roast, potatoes, & carrots, with Boston Creme Pie(to me it was a cake!) for dessert!
We give gifts to everyone in the household, although the birthday person gets more or the bigger gift. A birthday cake is traditional too, but we don't ice our cakes. The birthday girl/boy gets his/her favourite cake. Oh and Indian takeaway from our favourite restaurant.
Nothing major, we get to choose our birthday meal. When the kids were younger we gave them some input into the type of party they wanted. Love your tradition Jan! It would make for some fun birthday layouts!
lol that's fun! On our actual birthdays, we get to chose all the meals for the day &/or where we go out to eat on Friday (or get takeout since my son's bday was during quarantine!) I also make the kids half a cake on their half birthdays!
We usually wake up the birthday person with a cupcake and candle all ablaze and then prezzies get opened in bed. The birthday person also gets to choose what dinner the family has. it sounds lame, but it works for us. i would be so put about if someone planted cake in my face.
My dad used to do that with my mom - wrap her gifts inside a bunch of boxes, especially if it was a nice piece of jewelry or something Mmmmmm Boston Creme Pie!! I could go for some of that right now!! It all sounds lovely!! We usually do the meal thing as well. And you're right, I need to scrap some of their cake faces!! I don't think I've done very many of them outside of including them in PL! I love the half cake thing...how cool is that!! Opening presents in bed sounds so fun!!! ____ I went on a hunt for other photos lol Here's a picture from my son's birthday a couple of years ago. They tend to get a little extreme with each other...My granddaughter was a little more timid with it yesterday
We keep it pretty simple around here. The birthday person gets to pick their favorite breakfast and dinner. We usually open presents first thing after breakfast so they can play with them all day. Then after dinner, we have cake of their choosing, usually made by my oldest daughter who makes awesome cakes. We also usually go out for a family dinner (they get to pick the place) sometime during their birthday week. It's pretty simple. We do bigger birthday parties at age 10, 13, 16 and probably 18 (our oldest turns 18 this year and we haven't planned it yet).
We usually let the birthday person pick what's for dinner and what kind of cake they would like. For a LONG time I'd wake my boys up in the morning with this goofy cardboard and tinsel birthday hat. Last year or maybe even the year before my oldest wouldn't let me put the hat on him in the morning. My youngest still let me this year. Otherwise we keep it pretty low key.
DD turned 4 last week and I think we have just established our first tradition: making /decorating her cake together. Later, she described it to her grandmas on the phone as "the most beautiful cake in the world".
That's so sweet! I make whatever cake the birthday person wants. And my cake is always store-bought. LOL!
