I really don't have all the answers yet to the dilemma of what to do instead, but here's what we did this year - Nothing. Until last night. Spur of the moment decision to set up a surprise breakfast for the family. Some special occasion felt crowns (thanks to soulemama's book) i made earlier were placed on their spots, some candles to blow out, and voila! Her majesty was absolutely thrilled with the table next morning, as was everyone else! Cake for breakfast, yummm! Brought out their baby scrapbooks, told her story of the day she was born, lots of attention from everyone, and at the end, she helped clear up and on her own, thanked me for the 'party'. I even got the thumbs up from my dad, who is the brianwasher behind all the above fluff. happy mommy. happy birthday girl.
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gorboonesh she is so cute! happy birthday to the little one. can't believe she's 3 already ;)
some of my favorite birthdays were the breakfast ones too. We did a lot of that for mom and dad growing up. And after the age of about 10 or 11 I demanded that we have family birthdays only for me - at most one or two close friends. I wasn't big on the attention part either. You know it just depends from person to person and family to family. In many cases, birthdays are a chance to "get together" - One of my friends always does a picnic in the park with very specific instructions about "no gifts" and turns it into a picnic/games event.
My last four birthdays have been spent up in the air, which is just fine by me :)
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