Well since it is my birthday week I figure what better time to touch on birthdays when you were a kid. The good thing about having a birthday during the school year was getting to bring treats....a fact that 3 of my kids will not get to experience due to their arrival during the summer. But there was a drawback to having a birthday close to a holiday that is every grade school boys worst nightmare.......Valentine's Day and the dreaded party that went with it. Don't get me wrong the treats were great and you got out of school work for most of the day but it was a lot of work if you don't remember...which I touched on last year because you didn't want to give somebody the wrong idea with a misguided valentine if you didn't pay attention to what it said.
Now birthday wise at school it's usually a great day; you brought some homemade treats (again something my kids don't get to experience...and not just because of when their birthdays are) and you got to be the center of attention for a few minutes and if you were lucky maybe even a game of Heads Up 7 Up got thrown in. But if my birthday fell on a Monday - Wednesday then my birthday got over shadowed by the Valentine's Party that would be held on Friday. Now if your birthday fell on the weekend you'd do something on a Friday but it's just not quite the same. So ideally I needed the 10th to fall on a Thursday or Friday which did happen when I was 8 & 9 (thank you Google) and again when I was in middle school but by then I didn't have to worry about the V-Day party.
But what happened at my birthday parties as a kid I'm drawing a blank....I don't have much recollection of having one at my house with my friends. Yes I did have some (friends and parties); but I think I blocked out a good portion of memories from my childhood on that fateful day I helped teach my little brother how to bat. He's 9 years younger than me and he was like 5 or 6 at the time so he was at that perfect height and all it took was 1 practice swing when I wasn't paying attention to drop me to the ground. I even had flashbacks when teaching my own kids to take a good cut at the ball.
So if anyone remembers coming to one of my birthday parties as a kid drop me some hints to want went on and some of it might come back to me.
No comments:
Post a Comment