Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Celebrations by Konnie Enos


It’s December.
Everywhere you go you see and hear all about the gifts that have to be bought for the Christmas season. (Or Hanukah, or Kwanza, or whatever giving celebration you have at this season.)
In all this hubbub people, lots of people, with December birthdays, are forgotten.
Everyone else gets presents for their birthday and Christmas.
People with December birthdays often get just one gift in December sometime.
Everyone else gets a birthday present wrapped in birthday themed paper.
People with December birthdays often get just Christmas wrapped gifts.
People such as Charlie Puth, Holly Marie Combs, Daryl Hannah, Sara Bareilles, Kirk Douglas, Rider Strong, Mayim Bialik, Dick Van Dyke, Taylor Swift, and list goes on and on. There are lots of people with December birthdays including Walt Disney and Patty Duke.
For anyone who is fortunate enough to have a birthday no way near a major holiday you can’t possibly understand the problem. I however have some idea how people born in December feel.
My mother went into labor at the fireworks display. Since the bicentennial fell on a Sunday, we celebrated, you guessed it, on our birthday. Since our birthday was so close to a major holiday our birthday parties generally had sparse attendance, if at all. Everyone had holiday plans.
Having a child actually born in the month of December, I’ve tried really hard to make sure he has a birthday AND Christmas.
So in celebration of the arrival of my first born son, seventeen years ago today happy birthday Tony. And happy birthday to everyone else with a December birthday whom I’ve known throughout the years. (This means you too William Parker.)

Smile. Make the day a brighter day.

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