Do you like celebrating birthdays?

My birthday is in the summer so every year we had a family gathering outside at my grandmas house. They owned a beautiful wooded lot next to their home that my grandfather kept like a small park.
He built a huge picnic table that seated at least 16 to 20 people.

My grandma would make a sheet cake with pink icing and she also hid coins in the cake.
These days I don't care to celebrate my birthday because all those people are now gone and it makes me sad.

I do have one thing that brightens my day, my one grandson was born on my birthday so we celebrate together. My daughter makes it special for me also.
 

No.. I feel fine, but I don't like being reminded that I'm "getting on". As Mrs.L puts it, you're just a day older than you were yesterday.

However, my family send me cards and my elder daughter makes me fantastic hand-made cards. This year it was a wonderful 'triptic' based on the Beatles 'Yellow submarine' and featuring her toy monkeys.
 
I do! If I hadn't given my then-husband a birthday party, I wouldn't have discovered how much my little stepdaughter loved caviar. I gave her the leftover unopened jars to put in her school lunches. The teacher was appalled and called her mother -- it's always a surprise when someone thinks a little kid should not eat caviar.

I love have big parties with all my friends there. - people of all ages, including children. It is especially fun when everyone brings a dish -- It is never boring, especially when they aren't told which category they are assigned to. I was always hoping everyone would bring dessert, but that never happened.
 
Altho' I love to celebrate my Birthday... I cannot abide House parties. Never have, I just feel totally enclosed , and claustrophobic, when there's people there that I might not be too keen on spending time with, and I'm stuck in a small space with them for hours...no thanks. I always refuse house party invitations.. and haven't hosted a house party for many years
 
Our celebrations of the day we were born change over our life-time, but we should never sell ourselves short, by ignoring this special anniversary of our birth day. It's never too late to eat cake!

Now, for all you Cowgirls & Cowboys, who have spent your birthday out on the range this past year, here's a song for you!🎵 Happy New Year!
The 'ultimate' birthday song, done by the indomitable Sons of the Pioneers! Bob Nolan, Lloyd Perryman, Hugh Farr and Ken Curtis sing this staple birthday song in a recording from 1948. The pictures are of various Pioneer lineups and from their movies with Roy Rogers and Charles Starett. Photos used with permission from bobnolan-sop.net.
 
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