To ask how you expect to be treated on your birthday?

[Mrsknackered]

Tomorrow is my birthday and wondered how your birthdays are in your house!..please let somebody in this house remember

Thank you potato !

I will be visited over the course of the day by the entire family and my friends. We will drink coffee/wine and eat whatever cake has been purchased. We will coo over cards and admire gifts and DH will order a takeaway of my choice.
Repeat for DH, DC and everyone else.
It's what we do.

DrMum that sounds amazing and I'm also fascinated that you managed dinner out with four such young children! That takes some courage (well for me anyway). Happy birthday!

We always have birthdays as special in our house & I like being made a fuss of. I expect to have cards and presents, special food and to do something different.

If I didn't have any of this I would make it special for myself.

I expect to be spoilt! Depends whether it's a work day really but I always get presents and cake. I talk to dh beforehand - he asks what I want. I love birthdays.

Like the queen, obviously.

I never understand the joyless people who don't bother.
DH's birthday soon and of course we will have a lovely day.
You are never too old.

Oh birthdays are a big deal in our house. We always take the day off work for a start. Then it will be breakfast ( pastries and coffee) and presents in bed and home made cake later on. We typically go out somewhere for lunch and the afternoon. Last year we went for lunch to Petersham nurseries and on another occasion we took a river boat with friends and went to Hampton Court with a picnic from Carluccios. I think that birthdays are special occasions and should be celebrated appropriately....you can can have ordinary day every other day!

I'm not a big Birthday person really but an acknowledgement is nice.

It was my birthday last week - dh brought me a cuppa in bed before he left for work. I booked a day of annual leave to have a child-free chill out day.

Got 2 pressies - 1 from dh, 1 from dd - both were lovely. Had shop bought pizza and cheesecake for dinner which was what I fancied.

I feel a bit depressed now. Mine is soon and it's usually ways a work day, with more work needing to be done in the evening and it just slips past. There's always a card and present, it's not forgotten, but life just rumbles on really. Always thought that was fine but actually would like something nicer.

DH and I like to celebrate birthdays and tend to do similar things for each other. Always involves breakfast in bed, a card and present. Might also involve going out for a nice lunch or dinner, and having a birthday cake.

Breakfast in bed,hugs and loves from my DH and our 5DC,cards,presents and flowers.

Lunch out somewhere nice that my DH has sorted out or a day out somewhere nice that he's organized then in the evening he'll either cook something nice or order a take-away followed by a nice birthday cake loaded with candles.

In between it all my Dad will ring me and I'll speak to him and my big brother,my BF will ring me and a few family and friends might pop round to drop of cards and presents if they haven't dropped them of before hand and I'll get Happy Birthday messages from friends and family online/text.

My DH usually finishes the night of by running me a lovely bubble bath,lit candles around the room and a nice glass of chilled wine waiting for me whilst I soak in the bath once the DC are in bed.
Then we'll usually cuddle up on the sofa and watch a good horror movie before going to bed.

He's really good with things like my Birthday and Valentines day,Mothers Day and our Anniversary his gift buying for Christmas still needs work though.

We've always made a big deal of Birthdays in our family though.I do alot for my DH's birthday and we do alot for our 5DC's birthdays and for the rest of our familys and close friends birthdays.

I am a lone parent so it's just a normal day, although I usually buy a nice cake and/or take dd out for a meal so she feels like my birthday is being celebrated!

It's more about thought than stuff in our house, breakfast and presents in the morning. A lovely meal with champagne in the evening and lots of wine. Cards from the children are very important!

Think it's a bit bizarre that anyone should think it strange to want to be a little bit spoilt on your birthday. I am the only one in our little family not to have a birthday in the school holidays. I always take the day off if at all possible and usually my husband takes the day off too. Kids are normally a bit excited and want to do presents and cards before school. Husband treats me to a meal out. I return the favour for his birthday, his is the day before our daughter's so gets a bit overshadowed, but I take the day off, make him a special breakfast and take him out for a meal as well as us all buying presents and we'll have a family day out. In fact, come to think of it, this is the pattern for the kids' birthdays too, cards and (more) presents, favourite breakfast, day out, meal out. Isn't it a bit martyrish to "not expect" any fuss?

We love birthdays in this house. Why not? There is so much crap in life you have to celebrate the good bits. I've always gone to a LOT of trouble to give the kids a great birthday party every year - so they get excited for me and DH in return and make sure they've got us gifts and cards, etc to bring in the morning. I will make DH a special breakfast and a cake. He will make me a coffee in bed and buy a cake with the kids Last year was my 40th. He organised a surprise party on the day (which was a Sunday) and the night before took me out for dinner and gave me a beautiful diamond ring from Boodles. So very special! I'd done a surprise party for his 40th some years previously, though he's harder to buy gifts for than me Anyway, I think we all deserve a bit of special treatment on one day a year at least!

This year my birthday falls on my busiest day of the week with after school clubs and to add to that a year 10 parents evening to attend!
I'm taking the day off work so will go out for a non boozy lunch with my dp and then it will be kids stuff until about 8.30 where I plan on opening a bottle of wine!
I'm sure my ds's will get me cards and chocs. It will be my first year with my dp so who knows what surprises are in store?!
My parents always buy me something lovely.
My work colleagues not so much as a card!
My friends usually cards and flowers.

Oh and Happy Birthday for today Mrs Knackered!! 🎉 🎁 🍷

Happy birthday Mrs

Thank you very much everybody!
Perhaps this thread was a bad idea because it made me realise that wanting to be made to feel special isn't a selfish thing so I've acted up a little this morning.
Today is a landmark birthday, he has bought me a present.
He is in bed as he is 'exhausted', and has a shift in a couple hours, so I got up and did the children and I breakfast at half 7. I was up most of the night with the baby.
Is it wrong of me for my birthday to plonk DS in front of CBeebies and have a nap? All I want is too sleep!
No card or anything from the children. But he did remember a present - not my cup of tea but it's a step up from last year!

CBeebies is your friend!

Make a massive, wonderful cuppa, grab some biscuits and a blanket and hibernate on the sofa x

Birthdays mean something is our house.
I don't think it is wrong to want to celebrate a birthday even as an adult. It doesn't have to be a massive event with lots of fuss but for loved ones to acknowledge a birthday with a small gift and card is not too much to expect.

My birthday is next weekend. I will receive a gift and card from Dd and teen Dd will get me something too. I will also receive gifts from my parents and siblings and my PIL. And cards from some other family such as grandparents. I will normally open these in bed with dh and Dd.

As it's a weekend I will probably get breakfast in bed even if just tea and toast and we will go out for lunch as a family. If it was a weekday we'd go for dinner after work and school.

We do the same for all of our birthdays, and Dd usually gets a party/meal with friends on a nearby day.

We also acknowledge family and friends birthdays with card and/or gift.

I'd find it strange to not acknowledge a birthday. And dh would never not get me a gift or forget.

💐💐 happy birthday for tomorrow op.
I had my birthday this week. I had cards from my boys and dh. We will do something when he returns home in December ( he's navy!!). We will use the excuse for his birthday to.
Boys have a party

Happy Birthday! If it was me, I wouldn't hibernate... the sun is coming out here so I'd get everyone dressed and drag them out to a National Trust place or similar for fresh air. Then buy us lunch in the cafe (unheard of normally) or cake depending on what time we got there!
Have a great day, everyone will sleep better this evening for some fresh air... take charge and create your own lovely day. You'll feel much less resentful when DH comes home from work if you do. voice of experience!