We don't do mother's day or father's day. We don't even do birthdays, except for the game of trying to get to say, "Ha ha, you forgot my birthday, you forgot my birthday!" when it gets dark on the day of the forgotten birthday. We did birthdays and Christmas for our son, still do, and for his little ones; but....
I don't know why we feel this way. Both our families did the usual things. I would feel awful if forgetting his birthday hurt his feelings, of course.
Sometimes if i want to buy something I think I shouldn't, even if it's six months until my birthday, we agree that it's my birthday present; and if he doesn't want to treat himself to something, I insist he do it for his next birthday, or last.
We may actually come out way ahead using this system, it occurs to me.
Once we had a bunch of people for Christmas Eve, when we have our present-opening, some friends, some family and distant family, and realized at the last minute that we hadn't gotten anything for each other to open; so I just wrapped up some junk that we had already. We started laughing, so the ruse didn't work quite as planned. |
