Monday, October 02, 2006

Monday Memories



Monday Memories: Did I ever tell you About My Favorite Birthday Traditions?


Since it's my birthday - and it's my blog, I figured I would share my favorite birthday traditions with all of you...

1. The Cake Plate - Grambug has a beautiful cake plate - simple clear glass with little balls of glass around the edge - She always put our cakes on that plate (even if they were store bought). Just thinking about that cake plate makes me smile.

2. Chocolate Cake - No explanation needed... Yummmmy!

3. The Song - My family has a funny tradition - you have to call whoever is having the birthday and sing them the "Happy Birthday" song. The object is to be first but not to wake them up too early, because it is their birthday....

4. The dinner - the birthday person can request whatever they want for dinner (within reason) even if we just had the same thing last night.

5. The spouse or children of the birthday person says "Happy Birthday Mrs. Bird!" first thing in the morning. This goes way back to the Yellow Bird song we used to sing to the children (and Auntie LOL!!) when they were babies!! If you want the words to the Yellow Bird song, email me!! I'm happy to share...

6. Presents - we don't make a big deal - they come in dribs and drabs (The Grandbugs' present to me arrived on Thursday!!) - it makes the birthday last a loooong time. :-)

LadyBug

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11 comments:

Jane said...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR LADYBUG
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!!!!!!!

Have a wonderful day and may all your wishes come true!

Ramblins of a middle-aged goddess said...

Well you ruined the SURPRISE that I had planned. I had a blog that I was going to put out and invite everyone to come and tell you happy birhtday BUT since you already admitted it I still put out a blog anyway. i hope that you get a lot of people coming to wish you a happy birthday anyway...Go and see it is not much but i wanted to wish you a HAPPY DAY TOMORROW!!! Sandy

Just D said...

Happy happy day LBC... you so very much deserve a treasure of a birthday and lots of blessings all year thru!

Susan said...

Happy Happy Birthday!!!!!!! I hope you enjoy every minute of these wonderful traditions...and may you make a memory today to add to your memories in the future.

Bless you!!!!!

:-) Susan

Lazy Daisy said...

What no birthday tiara? Happy Birthday
Statistics prove that people who have birthdays live longer than those that don't. No, don't thank me....it's a scienctific fact!

Julie said...

Happy birthday. I heard it was your birthday from flip flop:) Hope you enjoy your day.

Norma said...

Happy birthyday LadyBug. Sounds like some great traditions. We were in California over my birthday (2 weeks ago). Wouldn't that be a nice tradition to start?

My MM is up.

MaR said...

Happy birthday to youuuuuu, LadyBug! Libras are good people *wink

Lisa said...

I love your site. I'm a big ladybug fan as you will see from my blog. Happy Belated Birthday.

Lisa said...

Happy Belated Birthday.

I love your blog!! I'm a huge ladybug fan as you will see from my blog.

Lisa

Melzie said...

We have many of the same birthdya fun ideas! Minus my moms song-- she calls me at the time i was born. Which is sweet right? Minus the fact that it was 4:18am. My 16th birthday I learned this fact- and every year since. LOL! And birthdya shoudl be extended-- enjoy your birthday weeks!