Only one of my children has a Christmastime birthday. I've heard all too often from the adults who fall into this category. Many will tell you that they grew up feeling their birthdays were slighted and overlooked by the holiday season. Especially if their day happens to be stuck in between Christmas and New Years. While it is difficult to keep the birthday celebrations separate from the holidays, View Post
How To Create A Snowflake Birthday Party
Our little gal wanted to have a Frozen birthday. Again. No offense to Frozen or anything -- because we really do love Disney a lot -- but we did that party already a couple of years ago. It was a darling party at a former venue here in St. Louis called Once Upon A Bash. (Sadly the business closed back in 2016.) This time around I convinced her to mix things up a bit and call it a "snowflake View Post
5 Reasons To Celebrate At Build-A-Bear Bakeshop
On December 27th our girl turned 6. It's hard having a birthday 2 days after Christmas. There's usually just so much going on with the hustle and bustle of the season. I never thought that we'd have a child with a birthday so close to Christmas. She was an entire month earlier so was quite the surprise and she has been surprising us ever since! Because of the timing of her birthday, we always make View Post