Today is my eldest daughter Katie’s 3rd birthday.
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Today is my eldest daughter Katie’s 3rd birthday. Here she is with her new Thomas starter set:
Her first birthday without her mother is also the first one she remotely cares about. She’s still only vaguely aware of the significance of Christmas, birthdays, and other milestone events but now she enjoys and anticipates the surrounding pageantry.
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I was born just a few days after Christmas and people often ask about how horrible that must have been with my birthday invariably taking a backseat to the holiday. However, the very opposite was true. Family and friends always took such extra care to insure I felt loved and remembered on my special day that I always received more attention than do most children on their birthdays.
Growing up I always felt special that the house, the neighborhood, nay, the whole world was covered in bright lights and filled with great joy for MY BIRTHDAY. What other kid had that?
So rather than feeling deprived I’ve always felt blessed to have a Christmas birthday.
MAY THIS ALWAYS BE SO FOR YOUR KATIE, TOO!
Happy Birthday Beautiful Little Lady!!!!!! >.<
My husbands birthday was Jan.1st. In our house we never celebrated New Year’s – it was always HIS day. And the kids and I always went out after Christmas day to buy his gifts so that there was no “holding back” a gift like he faced when a kid. Last Christmas was our first without him, so rather than celebrate on the 25th, we celebrated Jan 1st for everything. This year it was easier and we are back to ‘normal’.
May peace be with you and your girls James. Always in my thoughts and prayers.
@Anderson: Thanks, and yes. I didn’t realize that there were two variations on the sets, which I find inexplicable. I bought a starter set with a motorized Thomas engine plus a set of wooden trains. While the latter are probably a third smaller and don’t connect to the former, inexplicably using different coupling systems, they’re at least the same gauge. Katie seems to prefer the wooden ones, preferring to push them than to watch them. Also, she finds the motor too loud.
Happy B-day to your daughter! I hope you’re all doing well. This: Her first birthday without her mother is also the first one she remotely cares about. made me sad, and I don’t even know you.
My daughter, Amelia, turns 2 on 1/8. Our family’s holiday time looks like this:
12/18 – Daddy’s birthday
12/25 – Christmas
1/1 – New Year
1/8 – Amelia’s birthday
Back-to-back-to-back-to-back weekends of cool stuff.
She “got” Christmas this year. She is aware that she has a birthday coming up and that she will be “two.”
She’s been my excuse for breaking out my train set on Christmas (which I always did as a kid). I have LGBs, which are G-scale (basically the biggest toy trains you can get). This year she actually enjoyed them, though just to watch. We don’t touch daddy’s trains… 😉
