craftymom101
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Post by craftymom101 on Mar 25, 2020 15:58:47 GMT
... and I had to cancel his party, plus my parents’ trip to visit him for his birthday is also canceled. He is turning 14 and we had a fun day planned! Basketball with friends, Cheesecake Factory for dinner, sleepover. Now we will be home and hopefully order takeout and have cupcakes. I feel awful for him that his whole day has been canceled due to COVID-19. I know it’s for the best, and we won’t be those people who host a big gathering during a crisis, but it still sucks.
Anyway, I just needed to vent a little. This is a really small thing but it’s been on my mind today.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 25, 2020 16:01:34 GMT
... and I had to cancel his party, plus my parents’ trip to visit him for his birthday is also canceled. He is turning 14 and we had a fun day planned! Basketball with friends, Cheesecake Factory for dinner, sleepover. Now we will be home and hopefully order takeout and have cupcakes. I feel awful for him that his whole day has been canceled due to COVID-19. I know it’s for the best, and we won’t be those people who host a big gathering during a crisis, but it still sucks. Anyway, I just needed to vent a little. This is a really small thing but it’s been on my mind today. Right there with you, sister. My daughter also turns 14 on Saturday.
We're going to grab a cake, order her favorite pizza and try to make the best of it.
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Post by destined2bmom on Mar 25, 2020 16:04:08 GMT
Maybe you could set up the Zoom app And also have their friends sign up for it. And they can all see one another, talk and have a virtual party.
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Post by bethany102399 on Mar 25, 2020 16:05:16 GMT
My daughter will be 14 in mid April. We're scheduled to still be on lockdown then, so the vague plans we had made are now toast. I've reassured her that we WILL do something once we can get out, but she's still upset. Meanwhile I'm over here trying to pre game that I'll have enough eggs for both DH (his birthday is the first full week of April) Easter (in between the two) and then her birthday (mid April).
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Mar 25, 2020 16:17:39 GMT
((((Hugs)))) mama.
Spring 2020 birthdays are being disrupted hard this year.
I'm sure he'll still have a great day.
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Post by freecharlie on Mar 25, 2020 16:19:55 GMT
Ds's best friend's 16th was last Thursday. They shut down the dmv on Wednesday, so he wasn't able to get his license.
We sent him an Amazon egift card instead of cash
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Mar 25, 2020 16:38:42 GMT
My son turns 17 on Tuesday. I feel your pain. I am not sure what to do to make it special for him.
He wants to go to the nearest Popeye’s to get a chicken sandwich, which is about an hour away. Not sure I want to do that unless we can find something else to do outside between there and here. But we will see. I guess it isn’t any different than getting takeout, right?
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Post by peasapie on Mar 25, 2020 16:57:25 GMT
Darn. Maybe you can do a live chat party? We did that once for a wedding and it was fun.
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Post by used2scrap on Mar 25, 2020 17:19:54 GMT
Ugh my son’s 11th Birthday was Monday. He had been so excited to go to school with cupcakes and hear his name on the birthday announcements. He’s in 5th grade, so last year of elem and his last chance. He’s missed it every year before, either due to illness or spring break.
Not to be of course. He took it in stride, no epic Harry Potter party but we still decorated up the house to the nines, and drove him by to wave at his grandma and then brother. Had grandma, brother, and aunt join via FaceTime to sing happy birthday. He had a good day and a birthday to remember.
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Post by janamke on Mar 25, 2020 19:54:58 GMT
Same situation here, by daughter turns 16. She was supposed to be on a trip of a lifetime to New York City, obviously canceled. She won't get her drivers license because DMVs and behind the wheel have been shut down. She is a social butterfly and misses her friends terribly. She wasn't expecting any gifts from us because of the trip, but I've pulled together a few surprises for her. But yeah, going to be a bit depressing.
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Post by hop2 on Mar 25, 2020 19:59:03 GMT
Yeah my great nephews party was cancelled last Saturday. While necessary, it still stinks. Your DS is not alone
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Post by janeinbama on Mar 25, 2020 20:02:39 GMT
Same here, DGD 14th birthday was last week, party cancelled, spring break 8th gr trip cancelled, youth leg cancelled and her cousin DGS 15th birthday is Sunday, so no permit, no party and no dinner out. I making sure that our present $$ arrive prior to their birthdays.
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Post by idahomom on Mar 25, 2020 20:40:20 GMT
My son's 26th birthday is April 1. I bought 1200 googly eyes to put on things around his house when I stopped to let his dogs out to pee mid-day. Now he and his wife are working from home so it might have to wait til next year. At the very least we may just get take-out from a nearby BBQ place and bring dinner to him.
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Post by SweetieBugs on Mar 25, 2020 20:48:47 GMT
My son's 26th birthday is April 1. I bought 1200 googly eyes to put on things around his house when I stopped to let his dogs out to pee mid-day. Now he and his wife are working from home so it might have to wait til next year. At the very least we may just get take-out from a nearby BBQ place and bring dinner to him. Oh my gosh, that is a really fun idea. it would be hysterical if you had done that and he still had to work from home where his coworkers could see all the googely eyes!! |
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Post by Anita on Mar 25, 2020 20:51:37 GMT
I hear you. My youngest daughter's birthday is next week. She's cool with a cake and just us, but it depresses me on her behalf.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Mar 25, 2020 23:01:06 GMT
Ugh my son’s 11th Birthday was Monday. He had been so excited to go to school with cupcakes and hear his name on the birthday announcements. He’s in 5th grade, so last year of elem and his last chance. He’s missed it every year before, either due to illness or spring break. Not to be of course. He took it in stride, no epic Harry Potter party but we still decorated up the house to the nines, and drove him by to wave at his grandma and then brother. Had grandma, brother, and aunt join via FaceTime to sing happy birthday. He had a good day and a birthday to remember. I love that you still made it a birthday to remember! It’s also great that you are teaching him how to weather these disappointments! My youngest turns 21 next month and has had to cancel all her plans. But so far she has been bummed about the cancellation, but she hasn’t complained or let it get to her. Yes it’s going to suck that she can’t go on her trip and celebrate with her friends, family and first legal drink. But she will never forget that her 21st birthday was during a pandemic and she had to regroup and get inventive to celebrate  |
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Post by krys on Mar 26, 2020 5:07:25 GMT
My sons birthday is Saturday as well and my husband is on Wednesday. I have been wondering what to do to make them special as well! We will probably just make treats and play games! I’m sure they will be fine with it but I feel bad but what do you do.
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Post by beaglemom on Mar 26, 2020 5:34:01 GMT
This has been a week of birthdays in our house. Our youngest turned 2 on the 17th, my oldest turned 9 on the 23rd, and the second middle child turned 4 today.
The 2-year-old doesn't understand/know any different.
The 9-year-old was bummed. They are in their second week of distance learning with lots of online time a day. Her teacher never acknowledged her birthday, none of her friends did either. I didn't realize that I should have reached out to all of their moms to ask them to have their daughter's reach out since she knows when her friend's birthdays are and is already planning stuff for them. I blew up a bunch of balloons after she went to bed and snuck them into her room and decorated her door with streamers. I felt bad, her presents were things that I could get my hands, so mostly lego sets. She was okay with it, but I feel bad for her. She got to pick what to eat all 3 meals and got good facetime with her cousins and grandparents.
The 4-year-old keeps asking when he gets to celebrate with his friends. He has never had a friend party before and this was supposed to be the first and he was/is so excited. We did the balloons and streamers for him as well. He got to pick what to eat all 3 meals and got good facetime with the cousins and grandparents. So now I really want to plan an epic party for him, but don't know when that can happen.
Our county board of education announced we will not go back till May 4th at the earliest. I really doubt we will go back this school year.
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Post by FrozenPea on Mar 26, 2020 5:43:10 GMT
My birthday is Saturday too. My daughter's birthday is Sunday. Her golden birthday - 29 on the 29th. They were planning a big party weekend in Vegas and finishing with a trip to Zion. She's pretty heartbroken. Plus she's a professional wedding photographer and all her weddings have been canceled through May.
Tell your son happy birthday!
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Post by Peal on Mar 26, 2020 6:33:30 GMT
My youngest will be 15 next week. A lot of late March early April birthdays here. The last time we got together as a family was two weeks ago for my oldest's birthday. This will be the first family birthday in years we don't go out to dinner to celebrate.
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Post by PLurker on Mar 26, 2020 6:45:55 GMT
My birthday is tomorrow... or today as it's after midnight.
I'm thinking I'll just stay in this year. /s
Seriously though, happy birthday to all the kids that don't get to have their planned or normal birthday celebration. Birthdays are more special to kids and I hope they still get that "special" feeling.
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