Abi’s 7th month birthday led Mommy to ponder the meaning of birthdays. \u00c2\u00a0Why do we wish people “happy birthday” on the anniversary of their birth? \u00c2\u00a0Shouldn’t, instead, we wish their mommies “happy birth day” . . .and if the mommy happens to be Grandma Linda, also thank her for making Daddy the wonderful person that he is? \u00c2\u00a0Certainly, it is the mommies who do the hard work on birth days. \u00c2\u00a0(Unless, of course, we are discussing me – in which case I can honestly say “it wasn’t that bad.”) \u00c2\u00a0While some people may argue that birth is traumatic to babies, I am not sure I buy that. \u00c2\u00a0Abi seemed quite content when she was born, and enjoyed holding onto Daddy’s finger. \u00c2\u00a0In any case, I do not know anyone who really remembers their birth, so no one can really dispute me. From now on, I am going to be wishing peoples’ mommies happy birthdays – rather than wishing the person who was born a happy day on the basis that they successfully made another full rotation around the sun.<\/p>\n
p.s. if you want to wish Daddy happy birthday for Abigail, your two options are: (a) June 15th – the anniversary of her conception, and (b) March 16th \u00c2\u00a0the day that Abi was born and the anniversary of the day since when Daddy has been getting much, much less sleep than he needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Abi’s 7th month birthday led Mommy to ponder the meaning of birthdays. \u00c2\u00a0Why do we wish people “happy birthday” on the anniversary of their birth? \u00c2\u00a0Shouldn’t, instead, we wish their mommies “happy birth day” . . .and if the mommy happens to be Grandma Linda, also thank her for making Daddy the wonderful person that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.landspeople.net\/abi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.landspeople.net\/abi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.landspeople.net\/abi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.landspeople.net\/abi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.landspeople.net\/abi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.landspeople.net\/abi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"http:\/\/www.landspeople.net\/abi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.landspeople.net\/abi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.landspeople.net\/abi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.landspeople.net\/abi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}