Another bday issue, help!!!

thats crazy al your kids bdays partys have been on same day! We do ours on saturday if their bday falls during the week.. we make cookies for school and still ahve a nice day and celebrate that weekend.. Good luck!

When my kids birthday is during the week we still celebrate their birthday with say just mom & day. We still do something special. We also have a little cake on that day. They get a couple of presents. And the birthday is a celebration with extended family & friends & a bigger cake.

So yes you should still celebrate her birthday on friday. That is her special day and it should be celenbrated then.

I think that celebrating on a different day os fine. Maybe you could start the tradition that if the bday falls during the week then that can be yours and their's special day. Maybe a little cookie baking or something like that, special for you two. Maybe a few gifts and then the actual party on whatever day.

Hi Carla... just popping in to say hi. I will be back in a little bit to comment on this one again.

I think the girls above gave good advice. I don't have a kid, but that's what I remember my parents doing when I was little.

Hey Carla why not do what i used to do if any birthday fell in the week and we could not organize til the weekend then we would still celebrate the birthday on the day but we would only have presents from the immediate family,then at the weekend we would party and he or she would have presents from friends ,this way they would have two birthdays to celebrate and it would last that little bit longer .

We just celebrate with a party on the selected day, but give special treatment on the actual birthday.

No kids here, just stopping by to let you know I was here.

Make her a special dinner or let her pick some where out so the real birthday is special and you can celebrate her party on Saturday

No need to worry about it. Just tell her you will be celebrating her birthday on a different day. But you might to have a small present on hand for your daughter to open on her birthday. Thats what I always did. I have three kids and it always worked out fine. I used to work many long hours and always celebrated on weekends because I was to tired during the week. 12 hour days were killing me.

The thing is that she still needs to know that her birthday is special. A favorite dinner, a small gift...even just a few extra hugs to let her know that it was a really great day when she came into your life. The party day is about her gifts and friends and cake and noise. Her actual birthday is when you make her feel that she's the most precious gift you've ever received.

What we always did was have our special dinner (birthday girl's choice or favorite meal) and we were allowed to open one gift the night of our real birthday. That way, it was still an acknowledgment of the birthday and it wasn't just ignored....but the real excitement was still to come.

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We celebrate the actual day as a family, and give family gifts that day. Then on the nearest weekend we hold the party.

I have 4 children, and for awhile there we had "party years" and "no party" years. On the party years we'd have a birthday party someplace special, and the gifts given by family were smaller. On the no party years, a bigger gift was received by the birthday boy or girl and we went out to dinner at a special restaurant.

This helped our budget A LOT - and I think in some ways kept the kids from getting too spoiled or building their expectations too high.

weekend is the best time Carla, just make their fav cookies , drink and lot of games..

We ALWAYS celebrate on a different day.

We wish him a happy birthday on his birthday and then maybe give him something small on that day. We explain that we won't have our party for a little but because everyone can't come until then.

He's always been understanding.

With my kids if the birthday came on an odd date when no one could come or a school night...or maybe I was broke. They never had a problem with waiting till the weekend or sometimes even the weekend after the birthday. As long as they knew there was a party in it they could have cared less!

i agree with Ed... do something small on her real birthday and then have the big party on the weekend... that's what i did for my kids...

Wait for the weekend, no big deal.

I agree with everyone else. I hope that it went well, whatever you did. I always got dumped on on my birthday, but then again, Christmas is 5 days from my birthday & 4 days from my mothers. So, we did little on our birthdays until Christmas, when the whole family was together.

We always celebrate a birthday on the weekend even if it falls on another day.

If you don't want her to have to wait just let her go ahead and open a present or two and make a cupcake or something.

You can still make a big deal out of the day and then have the big blast when you actually do the party with everyone.

Wake her up in the morning with ballons and horns and stuff. Make it fun. Do something you normally wouldn't do just to make that day exciting and special. IT might turn out that she remembers the blue pancakes you made for breakfast that day 10 years from now but doesn't remember the party being on Saturday that year.

Use your imagination and have fun. If you need more help let me know. I can think of something.

Oh here is another idea. Tell her the birthday fairy came by and sprinkle some lite glitter in a couple of places with little trinkets around where the fairy has been.. She is a girl and 5 there is so much you can do for her.

Sorry my mind kinda ran away with the ideas.

I love thinking of fun things to do for special days.

The Easter Bunny at my house uses yarn to tie up the baskets and leave them hiding someplace and my son has to follow the string to find his basket. This year he had to find the clues and hunt for his basket.

Ok, really I'm done now. Let me know how it goes.

That reminds me. I have pictures and video of some of that Easter stuff. I should post it. Ok, here I go.

We always have my daughter's on Sunday before or after her actual birthday (this way her daddy can be there since he works on saturdays). Since your daughter knows what day her birthday falls on, do something small and special (just imeediate family) for her that day and have the bigger party on the weekend. That's what we do her for my daughter.