I just noticed in another post that Big J and SB were talking about working on their LO's birthdays. Is anyone taking the day off to spend it with their LO?
My mom asked me if we were going to take off and do something fun that day, but it never really crossed my mind not to send him to DCP and go to work. What's everyone else doing? SAHMs - will your SO take off?
Re: S/O Working on LO's birthday...
I won't be taking off. I'm a teacher and Liam's birthday is the first day back at work after Spring Break. It's generally frowned upon to take days off right after a holiday. We'll do our little celebration that evening after work.
I take DS's birthday off every year except for his first birthday I had just started a new job and wasn't able to have any time off. As luck would have it, I started a new job in July and didn't have enough seniority to get DD's first birthday off, either.
Nate's birthday fell on my day off this year so we went to the Science Center. Lily's birthday is Wednesday and I'm off Thursday and Friday so we might go to the zoo or something on one of my days off. She's not old enough to know it's her birthday so I'm not that torn up about it. But, next year I'll be sure to have it off. We always do something special like the zoo or the Children's Museum on Nate's birthday and we'll continue the tradition with Lily, too. We always invite the grand parents and the aunts and uncles but it's Dutch treat. Whoever can make it comes but if they can't it's NBD. It just makes it a fun outing for everyone.
This year it's on a sunday but when it falls on a weekday I am planing on taking a 3 day weekend for those. if it's on a wed, I'll take that friday off... when he is in school I may take 1/2 days to bring in cupcakes and treats like my mom used to
Dh and I took the day off for Z's birthday. We will be spending our day at the "happiest place on earth" - Disneyland!!