Please tell me I'm not the only totally crazy person b/c DH really thinks I'm nuts not wanting to work on his birthday! In my family birthdays are HUGE its your special day to do anything you want, eat what you want *within reason* and just really be special. maybe its b/c we didn't have a lot of money growing up but every year my dad would give us flowers and mom would make us blueberry muffins from scratch. Dinner was what we wanted (pizza for me!) and then cake and ice cream for dessert. It was always THE BEST! I work 2nd shift and want to do dinner and everything so I don't want to go to work I want to spend his entire birth DAY with him. I plan on making him his favorite meal and we're going to do cake (for the first time!) after dinner!
DH thinks I'm silly.
Re: Are you/did you take LO's birthday off of work?
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No. LO's birthday is on the 2nd to last day of school. I will have an entire summer home with him, i think he will survive if I am not home with him on his birthday.
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I will be taking off... but we actually share our birthday, so Im taking off for my bday as well.
We will have family from out of town and a party to prepare for (I am making his cake, so I will do that then as well.)
I'm not.
Technically I'm not "allowed" because it's the first day back to work after Spring Break but I wouldn't take it off anyway.
DH is working from home that week, though, so he is going to bring Liam up to school at the end of the day to see me and so we can show the birthday boy off!
DS: 10/11/14
I have a conference I'm in charge of planning that day, so I'm going to go for the morning portion and then leave around 2 just to be home and spend the afternoon with him. DH is a teacher so he can't really take off (he's using all of his personal days for a vacation next month).
We're planning to go to the zoo or aquarium that following weekend.
Her birthday is Saturday. I think I might have taken off if it wasn't though-- at least a couple of hours early so we'd actually have time together that day.
I can remember my mom taking off work sometimes for my birthday and I had the option to stay home from school and do what I wanted. It was great.
I took the day off. We had a party in the evening. I don't get off work until 5. There's no way I could have run home and gotten ready for the party in one hour.
I think I might have taken the day off even if her party wasn't that day. We had fun together! I took her to lunch and we wetn shopping, went to the park ... I wanted to make it "special" for her.
You're not crazy!
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I'm totally taking off my son's birthday! It's such a special occasion and I want to spend every moment of it with him!