They Say It’s Your Birthday. . .and yours. . . and yours, too?!?

 

    

The hubby and I come from big families – his is a family of parents+6 and mine is parents+4, with many outer rings of cousins, aunts and uncles. So it should be no surprise that our calendar is filled with many, many birthdays and anniversaries and other milestones to mark over the year. . . each year. . . EVERY year.

When we were young, many of our friends got married around the same time we did — actually we had a dozen weddings within a year of our own including his sister, my sister, cousins, friends, etc. It was a wild way to spend our year, but it was fun, too.

You would think that the celebrations would be spread out through the year, maybe evenly? Yeah, you would think so. But in our family, July has become Celebration Central.

We begin on July 3rd with two nieces’ birthdays, then our anniversary on the 9th, a brother’s birthday on the 11th along with a close friend’s too. The 17th, 21st, 22nd (another double birthday-brother and nephew), the 23rd (Hubby!), 24th, 25th 26th and 27th. Gosh we can’t turn around in July without marking someone’s something! And my Dad’s birthday was June 29th and my father-in-law’s at the beginning of August….! (Oh, and just for fun, the RWA conference is always in July, adding another week-long party-of-a-sort.)

How about you? Big family or small? Celebration congestion in one month or spread out during the year?

 

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