Help Celebrate Samantha Warren’s Birthday with a Scavenger Hunt

Help celebrate Samantha Warren’s birthday this week with a scavenger hunt amongst participating blogs.  You go to her site where each day she asks a question.  You go to the appropriate blog and find the answer.  There will be daily prizes, a grand prize of a Kindle, and lots of fun.

Samantha and I have something in common: December birthdays! December birthdays have challenges that some people see as extremely negative.  They see that Hanukkah and Christmas and Kwanzaa take way from the specialness of their birthday. I respectfully disagree.

Here are some reasons I am grateful for a December birthday:

• As anticipation for Christmas grows, so does your anticipation for your birthday
• No one has ever given me a partridge in a pear tree
• Everyone remembers your birthday month
• December has THE BEST shopping
• No one gives me underwear for my birthday (or socks or ties)
• You get cake and cookies, chocolates and eggnog, and cookies and eggnog, and cookies and …
• Your parents/friends feel bad for forgetting your birthday and buy guilt gifts
• You can party ALL month long
• You know who your real friends are – they come to celebrate your birthday
• You can buy yourself the BEST presents during holiday sales
• Skating parties are cool
• If you don’t get it for your birthday, you’ll get it for Christmas (or vice-versa for those whose birthday is after Christmas)

Yes, there are challenges to having your birthday in the month of December. Those challenges increase the close your birthday is to the actual holiday. My birthday is the week of Christmas. But I rarely felt cheated. I was fortunate in that my family always found a way to make me feel special on my day. Then, came the day when my son was born nearly a month late and just four days before Christmas.

Well, I’ve got to tell you, it was the best birthday and Christmas Combo gift I’ve ever gotten.

The best gift 

That I ever got 

Didn’t really weigh a lot 

It didn’t have a ribbon ’round 

And it sometimes made the terrible sound 

The best of all it seems to me 

It wasn’t neath the Christmas tree 

And yet, I guess I’d have to say 

That it made all the other presents twice as gay 

The best gift that I’ve ever known 

I’d always wanted most to own 

Yet in my dreams of sugar and spice 

I never thought it could be so nice 

The best gift that I ever get 

Was sometimes dry and sometimes wet 

Was usually pink but oftentimes red 

As it lay so innocently in its bed 

The best gift of the year to me 

The one I hold most dear to me 

A gift that simply drove me wild 

Was a tiny new born child… 

lyrics by Barbra StreisandWarmest wishes to Samantha, myself, my son, and my good friend, Jan. Happy Birthday!

How about you? What positives can you say about a December birthday?

And remember, use the Scavenger hunt icon in the sidebar to visit Samantha Warren’s site and participate, you might win a Kindle!