Christmas Birthday

software · ‎06-08-2016

Anyone have a family member born on Christmas?

My youngest grandson will be 2 this week, born on Christmas day.

He was born in a large university medical center. The doctors, nurses and all staff couldn't be better. It was actually very festive. As we chatted with the employees, every one of them volunteered to work that day, for various reasons. No one was randomly scheduled to work that day.

We do half Christmas celebration and half birthday celebration. He's too young to understand but as he gets older we may have to tweak the festivities.

Edit a number of employees were working alongside their other half. I remember one couple specifically, husband and wife. They were scheduled off for New Years to travel to see family

Krimpette · ‎03-09-2010

One of my niece's has a 12/26 birthday. Her husband's birthday is 12/24. Their son's birthday is 1/1!!!!! Also have a niece with a 1/1 birthday. Nobody on Christmas day.

alicedee · ‎07-25-2010

Yes, one of my sisters has a Christmas birthday. I always wrap her gift in Christmas paper....it's our tradition!

tobes · ‎08-02-2010

@software My son's friend was born on Christmas day so his family has an "unbirthday" on the Fourth of July.

KingstonsMom · ‎03-09-2010

@Krimpette

Boy, you really have a holiday family!

You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

chrystaltree · ‎05-10-2010

I work in Healthcare, my husband and is an RN, my brother resp therapist, my bff a physician who worked as an ER physician for years. Every hospital schedules shifts every day of the week, including holidays. Although people do sometimes switch schedules with coworkers. Yes, hospitals go the extra mile to make it festive for families, patients, volunteers and the employees. My grandfather's birthday was on Christmas Eve and we always celebrated his birthday s prt of our Christmas Even celebration. There was always a birthday cake and birthday presents, in birthday wrapping. No two-fer presents although I have heard that Christmas birthdays tend to get short changed. My sister was in the hospital over one Thanksgiving, she had brain surgery and we brought Thanksgiving to her hospital room and shared it with her roommate and her husband.

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

If I had a Christmas birthday, I'd insist that people celebrate on the half year. So it would be all about ME!

wagirl · ‎03-09-2010

yes--my nephew was and my daughter was born the 23rd--both are adults. We celebrate birthdays totally separate from Xmas---not fair to combine occassions--at least in my book.

queendiva · ‎03-12-2010

Uncle born on Christmas Day. Many members of my Dad's family were born on holidays.

Nephew born on 12/23.

chrystaltree · ‎05-10-2010

@Sooner wrote:
If I had a Christmas birthday, I'd insist that people celebrate on the half year. So it would be all about ME!

If I had child who had a Christmas birthday, I would start the tradition of celebrating that child's birthday the first Sunday of December. Every Child deserves their own special day. Growing up, I had friend whose birthday was in May but she chose October as the month to celebrate her birthday because in her large family (she was one of 12 kids); there were couple of May birthdays and her parents were married in May and then there was Mother's Day in May. So she moved up her birthday. She also chose her own first name, she didn't like the one her parents gave her so one day when she was 10, she announced that her name was now "Lisa" and that's what the world called her from that day on.