On 2019-02-24 12:18 p.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 2/24/2019 11:50 AM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:

>> Happy birthday.Â* I'm a Feb birthday too.Â* The real curse of an early
>> Feb. birthday is when you're a kid all your aunts say 'this is your
>> Christmas and birthday present.'
>>
>
> We have a granddaughter Jan 1.Â* We've been careful to avoid that.
> She gets both a Christmas and birthday gift.Â* Depending on
> circumstances, it may have been the same day but we tried to avoid that
> too.

She is lucky. My wife and I always made sure to buy birthday and
Christmas presents for all out nieces and nephews and delivered them or
shipped them in time for the events. I wish that brothers and sisters
in law had done the same for my son. The year that none of his aunt or
uncles bothered to get him a birthday present I let it be known I was
not buying any more Christmas gifts for the kids. My mother suggested
that at the family Christmas we could do that $5 gift thing. One SiL
was upset with that because she had four kids while one brother and I
each had one kid and the other had two. Funny that I was okay for us to
have to spend close to $150 on Christmas presents for their 4 kids but
her having to spend $20 on the four $5 was seen by her as grossly unfair.