Twelve years ago, when I realized I was in labour and definitely giving birth in the following hours, I thought the timing was perfect. First, I couldn’t wait to meet the baby who had been jumping on my bladder for months—we didn’t even know whether it was a girl or a boy. Second, I was very much looking forward to not being pregnant anymore—my motto is, one body, one person only. And third, I didn’t have the chance to buy Feng a birthday present so here it was, only a few hours late.
Feng’s birthday is on October 11. Mark was born on October 12. Cute, isn’t it?
And now here I am, twelve years later, running around and stressing out about organizing two back-to-back birthday celebrations that invariably fall close to Thanksgiving, which means empty shelves in busy grocery stores.
Oh, it’s easy, really. They both don’t know what they want—actually, they don’t even want anything. No pressure, really.
Ah, ah.
“Have you ever considered celebrating both birthdays together?” a friend asked me recently.
Oh, hell, yes. I floated the idea a few years ago. By the look on Mark’s face, I quickly understood I was signing him up for years of psychotherapy to work on the whole “don’t kill your father literally” thingy.
So we celebrate Feng’s birthday first, then Mark’s.
I stopped buying two cakes. Feng gets fancy ice cream—he loves it and at least, we can put it in the freezer for later while we work on Mark’s cake, not to mention my in-laws always feel the need to buy another giant cake on top of that.
In fact, this year, they brought the cake to our place on Mark’s birthday, which was mildly annoying considering they were supposed to celebrate Mark the day after at their place and I had already bought a cake because it’s my freaking job as the person who actually birthed the baby. They probably thought I would forget since I’m the world’s worst mom—that or they forgot I exist.
Still, it was a lovely long weekend and both birthdays were celebrated properly. Mission accomplished!
Happy birthday Mark!! Il va briser des coeurs, je te le dis !
Il brise le mien déjà, pas toujours dans le bon sens 😆
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww ;,)
Aww, looks like it did turn out nice. Happy Birthdays!
I think they were happy 🙂
Bonne fête à tes hommes!
Merci!
Comment se passe ta reprise de travail?
Vraiment bien! J’en suis à trois jours semaine
Je suis super contente pour toi! J’aime ton attitude 🙂 You deserve a better year than last year!
Happy birthday aux 2 hommes de ta vie et oui c’est fou la proximité des dates d’anniversaire, et en même temps je n’aimerais pas trop que ce soit le cas chez nous. Comme ça chacun a son moment bien à soi.
Ici nous avons des natifs d’octobre (moi) de février (mon chéri) d’août (mon fils ainé) de juillet (ma fille) et de septembre (mon petit dernier) donc c’est bien réparti dans l’année !
Ton anniversaire est passé ou pas encore? Either way, joyeux toi! 🙂
À Ottawa, c’est dingue le nombre d’anniversaires en octobre. Quasiment tous les gens que je connais, en fait. Dans ma famille aussi c’est bien réparti de mars à octobre.
C’était le 10 et oui ça s’est bien passé !
Bon anniversaire à peine en retard, alors!
Happy belated birthday to Feng and Mark!
Thank you! Passing along the wishes!