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.

[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??? :)

[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. :)

[the-lonely-goth.livejournal.com]

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

[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

[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.

[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. . . :)

[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.

[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.