Curiousity

[jadecat]

So in another person's journal the topic of birthdays near holidays came up. Which got me thinking and wondering if other people find that there are grouped birthdays or special events? Are they concentrated on around certain holidays? By example I give you the 'calendar' for my family:

Jan- Birthdays- Me 11, dh's son-in-law 13 (I think)
Feb- Birthdays- Mom Feb 27, Grandma P
March- Birthdays- Brothers 28, DH 29, Grandpa D 30
April- Birthdays- Sis 2
May- Anniversaries- Sis and Bro-in-law 30, Sis-in-Law K and hubby J
June- Birthdays- mom-in-law 9, step-daughter M 20, sis-in-law M 24, sis-in-law B 25, Anniversaries- Bro and B- 14, Bro and M- 19
July- Anniversary- Mom and Dad
August- Birthdays- sis-in-law K 6, Dad Aug 30
September-
October- Anniversary- DH and Me
November- Birthdays- Bro-in-law 3, Baby B 8
December- Christmas!!

So mid-June is a bit hectic, as is late March/early April, but other than that- we're fairly well spread out- how about the rest of you?

Comments

[kokopelleigh.livejournal.com]

my birthday is two weeks after christmas, on jan. 8th. i ALWAYS got hosed on the presents as a little kid. :(

THENNNNN, when i got older, my family commenced with the elvis jokes. (i share his birthday)...i've gotten commemorative stamps, cards, pictures, etc...and i'm not EVEN a big elvis fan.

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

Heh, I hear ya on the gift thing. ;) My parents tried- and some years we would just celebrate after the date. One year it was forgotten- but I was good enough to remind my mom, who hurridly made a cake before leaving for work that morning.

But c'mon, you share Elvis' birthday- you MUST be a fan. ;) I don't know how it started, but now every time we see an Elvis something or other the hubby has to do his Evlis impersonation (badly done on purpose) and say 'Look Honey, it's Elvis.' Men are weird. ;)

[kokopelleigh.livejournal.com]

oh yeah...they take it too far sometimes. it's probably why im *not* a fan.
for example...*ALL* in the world i wanted at 16 was a car. so on my b'day, they psyched me out with a big velvet elvis with a giant bow and took pics of me all pissed off before actually bringing the car out of hiding.

awful.

:)

[sarbah77.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it! I'm a Jan 4 baby.

AND MY PARENTS OCCASIONALLY FORGET!

WTF OVER. THEY WERE THERE WHEN I WAS BORN! IT'S RIGHT AFTER CHRISTMAS!

My mom's is a week before mine, too.

No, I don't get Elvis stuff. I'm lucky if I get a card, though I do get a call. Last year I didn't get my presents till mid-February and I'm still waiting for my ONLY sibling to get me my gift (I told him he gets his after I get mine).

But. Yeah. I know your pain.

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

I'm sure that your parents, like mine, remember we were born... it's just that the actual day surprises them. ;) Kind of the 'Yes, Anne's birthday is the 11th... What? Today's the 11th? NO!!!' kind of thing. :)

I'm really bad with birthdays- though I endeavor to be better. At my cousin's wedding in September I gave my sister three cards- 1- Christmas, 2- Birthday, and 3- Anniversary. I got a laugh. :)

[esmerel.livejournal.com]

My mom and two of her 3 sisters were born within two weeks of Xmas. Dec 18, 22, and jan ... 4? something like that. Once I got old enough, I made sure that mom always gets separate presents for b-day and xmas :)


In jr high/High school I had 6 friends who had birthdays within two weeks of each other (born same year, first two weeks of october)... must've been a cold, cold new year's :)

[devoosha.livejournal.com]

December/January are my killer months.
Dec. 1-SIL
Dec. 2-Mom
Dec. 5-Nephew
Dec. 25-Christmas
Dec. 28-Dad
Jan. 11-Niece

Way too much present buying and money spent all at once! :) Brother is in April, Matt's in June...all three of his nephews are in June. Don't know Matt's brother or his wife. His mom is in Aug. Let's see...9 months before December is...March or February. Maybe there were lots of blizzards those times??? :)

[sarbah77.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's not so bad! ;)

Dec 25: Christmas
Dec 26: In-law anniversary
Dec 27: aunt & uncle anniversary
Dec 28: mom birthday
Dec 31: mom-in-law birthday
Jan 4: my birthday

August 7: aunt birthday
August 11: dear friend birthday
August 12: my anniversary
August 13: doesn't matter, had a friend who's bday was then
August 23: bro AND uncle b-day
August 27: husband b-day
August 30: friend b-day
Sept 19: talk like a pi... i mean, dad birthday.

[firesign10.livejournal.com]

Hee! I am August 13 too. (and first marriage's anniversary was the 20th).

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

Eek, December really is a killer month for you! I buy the blizzards theory. ;)

[jaimem30.livejournal.com]

Ours seem to fall on or near holidays. I was born on Memorial Day (May 30). Dad was born on Halloween. Mom and brother sometimes have Easter or Good Friday (April 13 & 3). Sister is the only odd duck, Jan. 11.

Funny anecdote...My dad is the oldest of 5 kids. 4 of the 5 were born roughly 9 months from my grandparents' anniversary. :)

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I wonder if that's a coincidence... *ponders*

Hey another Jan 11! Your sis is therefore cool. ;) And yes, an odd duck, I am after all.

[the-lonely-goth.livejournal.com]

Zoe has a birthday on Dec. 1st.
Same month as Christmas so her stuff gets thrown together.

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

Seems a shame to me- there's a couple weeks difference there.

[firesign10.livejournal.com]

My time was July -

July 3 - mother
July 5 - niece
July 9 - ex-DH (Furuba9's dad, so still in effect)
July 16 - sister
July 24 - dad

In august was my birthday and a week later was my anniversary (first marriage).

Everything else is more spread out -
Jan 3 - Furuba9
Feb. 10 - Mr Bear
March 1 - brother (and this was supposed to be Mr Bear's birthday but he was emphatically invited to appear early since he was already 8 lbs. by then)
May 11 - blogula (DH)
Sept. 8 - anniversary with Blogula

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

I like spread out, easier on the pocketbook. ;)

[crwilley.livejournal.com]

Mine is December.

4) Sister and SIL's birthday.
6) MIL's birthday.
17) dear friend's birthday.
21) dear friend's birthday.
25) Christmas
26) My own anniversary
27) FIL's birthday.

On top of being hectic, it's hell on the gift-giving budget, to the extent that my sister has started asking for her birthday to be celebrated in March.

[sarbah77.livejournal.com]

LOL. My mom tries the same thing (celebrate birthdays in March).

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

I had a couple early spring parties- but with my brothers and sister having their birthdays around that time... let's just say it got complicated. ;)

Specially with my brothers birthday being 5 days before my sister's.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Mid-April has my daughter, my husband, and my brother within six days of each other, sometimes clustered around Easter. My MIL's birthday is on Boxing Day. Myself and my two sisters were all born in the summer - 32 days between me, first, and my middle sister, last. That's about it for clustering in my family.

The most common birthday months are March, April, and May, because people get pregnant while on summer vacation. :) (I have some personal experience with that phenomenon. . . :)

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

You have a lot of teachers in your family huh? ;)

[bound-gagged.livejournal.com]

Hehe - you have the same b-day as my mum :)

I know that a bunch of my family was born in March, 5 total relatives including me that I know of. A few in May. We're not so close so I dunno about the others. However, my brother is starting a June trend, he and his daughter :)

My husband's b-day is Nov 22. Which he hated as his parents used to pick his b-day or x-mas to be "big" (which in real terms wasnt big at all). So either his b-day or x-mas, depending upon what they picked would be really small and disappointing. Poor thing! Though no surprise as they shipped him off to boarding school when he was 8 until he was 18. Then he went to University.

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

Your mum must be way cool then. ;) This is funny- all growing up I know only one other person who shared my birthday. Then today I see there are several. (which, duh, I KNEW but I didn't know specific people ;) )

Poor hubby- that doesn't sound like any fun at all.

[padawan-helena.livejournal.com]

I can't resist replying to this one, even if I am a little late.

In my family, we're pretty much spread out, except for late March and some scattered birthdays throoughout april (which means some couples have had some fun in the summer, eh? Including me and my Frank, who will get our baby in April, too. :-) ) Then there are a bunch of us who have our birthdays during the first half of October.

Here's another funny fact: Last winter - as a matter of fact, in early January - there was a heavy storm in southern Sweden that caused up to three weeks lack of electricity in some places. Exactly 9 months later - in early October - the hospital staff in one of the areas who had the worst of the storm reported an unusually large number of births during 2 weeks. :D I guess people had nothing else to do during the storm.

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

Heh, that seems to happen a lot whenever there are massive power outages... Hey, when you've gotta do *something* during that time...


Summer usually means vacations, and relaxing... so yeah, I can see that meaning more babies 9 months later. Plus- it avoids having to carry heavy during the hottest part of the year. Maybe not so much an issue where you are but rather one here. ;)

Everything going well with the Sith Baby?