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littlekiwi

littlekiwi

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How do you celebrate significant events in your life or significant others lives?
 
Depends on the situation quite honestly. Post Covid outbreak, it's kind of been a non event for the most part, my mum and I might make a special meal that we wouldn't normally make day to day but thats about it. It will be the same for my mum's birthday this week - she's recently been diagnosed with Long Covid after five months post COVID outbreak at home and I am dealing with the second week of symptoms from a chronic health issue so neither of us are up for anything outrageous. Even for my own birthday without any health issues, I tend to keep it low key as well - too cold, wet and miserable in July (our winter) to go anywhere
 
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I'm sorry to hear of your mum's Long COVID diagnosis, and I hope she feels better ASAP. And you as well,
@littlekiwi, with your own health issue.

When it comes to family celebrations, my husband's family are really big on a big family dinner, usually held at the family farm. My sisters and I are a lot more laid-back, or maybe just lazier: we don't really do birthday dinners.
 
For birthdays we celebrate with a favorite meal and dessert. I don’t like hosting parties so I restrict friend birthday parties to every other year for my kids.
 
Today is my son's birthday! He's 12! We don't usually make a huge deal about birthdays- dinner of their choice and usually either cake or I make cupcakes. Both our kids have March birthdays & are getting to the age where "parties" aren't really a thing, plus our schedules are jam packed. Usually we have a weekend at the lake in the summer where they can invite friends out for a fun lake birthday weekend. For everyone else- I tend to send or give a card and well wishes for whatever we're celebrating. Most of the adults in our families and friends value time/friendship over gifts these days anyways!
 
mary kate said:
I'm sorry to hear of your mum's Long COVID diagnosis,
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It's not really super bad news for us with that, it's more a relief to know why she's felt so exhausted just with working part time since COVID. She worked part time before that so that's not the reason she only works 32 hours a week but she was able to do more than just purely exist before.
 
We don't do anything super big, just making birthdays special in our house, dinner of their choice, cake/cupcakes etc, and just spending time together.

For friends and family outside of our home, I send cards, or special messages in text/calls etc depending on the person or event.
 
My mom always makes birthdays special. We get to pick the meal and the dessert. She always sets the table so beautifully and usually has a bouquet/centerpiece. I've followed in her footsteps and tried to make birthdays special for my kiddos as well. When they were younger, they had parties or sleepovers. Now we usually go out to eat or we cook and then have dessert. Here are a few layouts of our birthday celebrations.

This was my sister Anna's birthday dessert. She often gets her birthday combined with our Mother's Day dinner, which is what happened this year.



Olivia's 20th birthday cake that I made:



My 49th birthday dinner and strawberry cake for dessert (my fave):



Daniel loves ice cream so for a couple of his birthdays, we just had ice cream with candles shoved in his bowl. LOL



I made a coconut cake to celebrate Mama's 70th birthday. It's her favorite cake.



Strawberry cake (again), this time for my 47th birthday.



Mama's 66th birthday. Another coconut cake.







Olivia's 16th birthday and I made a strawberry cake.



Another ice cream birthday for Daniel. This was his 7th.



Olivia requested an Oreo ice cream cake for the sleepover with friends.

 
Usually birthdays are the dinner of choice... usually going out to a restaurant of choice. And then we do cake or donuts or brownies, again, whatever the person with the birthday chooses.
 
Usually birthday person is woken up with a lit candle in a cupcake, being sung to/at and gifts.
They decide what they want for dinner, either we go out, or I cook.
Anniversary's we have gone big for 20th(cruise), 25th (vow renewal) and 35th cruise again.
More in between ones we do a meal out and hubby loves to reminisce.


This was a family pre-birthday cake and tea.
 
When my kids (and then my grandkids) were young we often had "backyard" birthday parties for the summer birthdays ... family/friends over for games/food/cake/ice cream. I rented ponies and a moonbounce for one party, then just moonbounces after that (the ponies were a bit much, lol!).

For my granddaughter (Nov. b'day) we usually had a party for her at the Discovery Zone (now defunct) or Chuck E. Cheese since it was too cold to be outside and my house is too small to host inside.

Now that the kids are grown we usually just go out to dinner.

For friends' birthdays, I like to take them out to dinner and vice versa. For my 60th b'day though, a friend and I flew across country to Disneyland. Neither of us had been before and we had a blast.
 
We go out to dinner at the guest of honor's choice of restaurant. Then home for cake and presents.

Most our other celebrations involve dinner out and sometimes a trophy. :D My son organizes a small fantasy FB league with close friends and family. I won it last year and he handed over a 3 foot tall trophy that I kept in my office for a year until someone else won. It was a happy day when we went out to dinner with the winner and I could hand over that ginormous trophy to someone else. :D

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