Celebrating Birthdays
Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 8:29AM
Today's topic at The Homeschool Village is how you celebrate birthdays during the school year. Well, my daughter's birthday is in the dead of summer (July) and we always celebrate by taking our family vacation around her birthday. She has been to the beach, grandma and & grandpa's house, and NY for her birthday celebrations. What a lucky girl! We always celebrate at home, though, too - and I love it that our celebrations always center around the same dining room table that I had in my house growing up as a little girl!
My daughter's last birthday was super special - a friend of mine made an American Girl cake for her - and WOW, was it a cake, or what??
She also shared the day with her best friend. What could get any better?
My son, however, has a birthday two weeks before Christmas. We try to do something special of his choosing on his birthday. It always involves inviting a good friend to spend the evening with us to celebrate. Here the boys are anxiously awaiting birthday presents!
A couple of years ago he chose to go to the Georgia Aquarium. Daddy took the day off and we had such a good time.
Dinner was GMan's choice -- at his favorite: IHop!
Each of my children has a scrapbook of their first year of life, and I put that book out on the coffee table for the week surrounding their birthday. We go through it and I tell them stories about their first year of life. It is such a special time. If we have family and friends over for a birthday celebration, then I leave out all of their scrapbooks for the guests to look through. It makes my children feel like the King or Queen for that day.
I am also a firm believer in not having to do schoolwork on your birthday!! This is a definite advantage to homeschooling, that's for sure.
In closing, I'd like to share our children's favorite birthday cake recipe with you. It is for a Peppermint Poke Cake, and it is disgustingly good! My daughter helps me make the cake and I think we have the recipe memorized.
Hop over to The Homeschool Village to see how other families celebrate birthdays!
Reader Comments (8)
I'm visiting from the homeschool blog link-up. What fun you all have had! I just love the flexibility that homeschooling can bring!
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Mary, that AG cake was just awesome! I can't wait until Molly is more into them.
We have a December baby too! That is always a challenge to keep it about their birthday and not Christmas!
Looks like fun! Looove the special AG cake! My girls would love it too!
Great post and on my blog I have pictures of the birthday cakes I have decorated for my children. That's a great idea about leaving out the scrapbooks for the birthday girl/boy. I just need to finish child #4's book (She's almost 3)
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That American Girl birthday cake is amazing!
We eat around the same dining room table I did growing up too!
I love your birthday celebration ideas. Thanks for sharing them!
~Jennifer
Oh, my! That peppermint poke cake looks absolutely scrumptious!! My dd will go ga-ga over it as that is her favorite combo. :)
Very nice idea to write about how you celebrate your childrens' Birthdays. I also believe in no school on Birthdays. We have made each of their Birthdays holidays all along.
It looks like you have wonderful birthday traditions at your house! I LOVE your idea of setting out the birthday child's scrapbook. And my daughter would have absolutely adored the American Girls party and cake!
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