I also have a December child and she gets so frustrated that people just lump her gifts together. They also do this for my January child as well. “Since we probably won’t see you for a while….”

We started a tradition where they get x amount of gifts on their birthday and x is how many years old they are. It’s mostly little things that I pick up here or there, but they enjoy it!

My oldest daughter’s birthday is Christmas Eve and I am a pro and seperating the two. We have a family party and all her presents are to wrapped in “birthday” wrapping paper. After almost 16 yrs (she will be 16 this yr) she has never been shafted on her birthday :)

My birthday is on the 20th and I hate having birthday & christmas presents combined into one when I was a kid, ditto with the christmas cards that had ‘PS happy birthday’ scribbled into it. My husband’s birthday is on the 31st, so we get to do the festive season + 2 birthdays all under 2 weeks. Lucky our daughter’s birthday’s in July!

Thanks for the tips! My dad’s birthday is December 26, and now my son’s is Dec. 30. The one thing my dad has always said is important is separate acknowledgement of the birthday, and we will try very hard to make R’s birthday a separate, celebratory event…and not just something that gets lumped into Christmas & New Year.

The flip side of this, however, is my birthday…October 29. I know Halloween isn’t a holiday in the sense that Christmas & New Years are, but I always loved having my birthday near Halloween. It was an excuse to have fun costume parties for my birthday, and even as an adult, when I see pumpkins and halloween decorations go up, it gets me excited for my birthday. In fact, I always sort of saw Halloween as the continuing celebration of my birthday…I had my big day, and then two days later got to do more fun stuff. So I am trying to capture this feeling for my son.

My birthday Xmas eve it was always hard on my parents once my Sis n Bro was born but some how my mom always found a way to make it special …Im spanish so every Xmas eve my family will have huge get togethers music ,food n kids running wild but nobody was aloud to open gifts just me n they always sang n had cake for me ….now i have two kids of my own and birthdays kinda non existant but a guy id me once n told me celebrate two wks before or after so u dont get ript off n honestly i highly suggest it lol cuz i always got the one gift for both from family members lol

My daughter’s birthday is December 23rd. We also skip the big party in favor of a “half way there” party in the summer time. Also, we refuse to wrap Birthday gifts in Christmas Paper, same goes for Christmas cakes, they are a NO-NO… When it’s birthday, it’s birthday, when it’s Christmas it’s Christmas… We also celebrate early, and then just have cake on her actual birthday. She loves it. I also give her one gift for each year old she is. We did her small celebration today, and she informed me it was her best birthday ever! That’s a good sign, IMO.

These are all good ideas. Two of my cousins have December birthdays, including a Christmas birthday. Now my daughter will turn 1 on the 27th. My son’s birthday is the end of July and that has its own issues, because schools no longer give out class lists with everyone’s contacts in them, so his friend parties have been taking he and a friend to LegoLand Discovery Center and Rainforest Cafe. This is a big treat since it’s a 90 minute drive from us. The one caveat I would give is on the combining presents. My 19 year-old cousin has ASKED my mom to combine her Christmas and birthday gifts so she can get a more expensive gift(Toms shoes) that she really wants. As Addie gets older, she may occasionally request that and people shouldn’t hesitate to do it if the birthday kid asks. The Christmas birthday in my family always has her birthday party the weekend before Christmas, so we are going to do my daughter’s party the weekend after New Year’s.

With a son born on the 16th and my husbands bday on the 27th, we’ve become a bit of pros. We don’t get our tree until the weekend after his birthday, which actually kills him as he LOVES Christmas. But it makes getting the tree even more special for him, as it’s part of his birthday celebration. We do his friend party in January, and the family gets together near his birthday. I don’t think he’ll ever feel slighted. I swear I’m going to do the half birthday thing one year, because I have some amazing ideas for a summer birthday and my kids are all fall and winter babies.

great ideas to use for my feb 13th baby! thanks