A fun edible icing sheet
to top your birthday cake.
Balloons scattered around the house,
and a vibrant “Happy Birthday” sign
sparkles brightly on the wall.
🎈🎈🎈
Your new toys were assembled
while you attended daycare.
Batteries inserted,
ready for your tiny hands to play.
🎈🎈🎈
Everything wrapped with care
in crimson-red Mickey Mouse paper.
Joyfully, I rushed around for two days,
putting it all into place just for you.
🎈🎈🎈
Although you're still so young,
probably not fully aware,
I want the day to be as special
as you will always be to me.
I wish you the happiest beginning
for your third trip around the sun.
🎈🎈🎈
Then we’ll wake the next day
and do it all over again,
because it will be my turn
to celebrate a birthday.
🎈🎈🎈
I had my son on the 19th of December, and my last day of my 30s. I spent my 40th birthday in the hospital, getting to know him.
I love the festive season and I couldn’t be happier to share my birthday week with my little boy.
About the Creator
Sandy Gillman
I’m a mum to a toddler, just trying to get through the day. I like to write about the ups and downs of parenting. I’m not afraid to tell it like it is. I hope you’ll find something here to laugh, relate to, and maybe even learn from.
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Comments (23)
This is so cute! My family has a shared-birthday-week situation in October. I hope your birthdays were great!
Happy birthday. Beautiful.
Your boy's third trip around the sun sounds like it was absolutely magical. I love that you get to do it all over again for your own big day. Birthday twins for life! 🥳🎉💖
A special poem to mark a special time of remembrance. Many Happy Returns to you both! Enjoy 🎉🎶🎉
The rhythm of this piece is so gentle and warm. It feels like an intimate diary entry or a letter for your son to read one day. I especially love the circumlocution of "third trip around the sun," which adds such a sense of wonder to his birthday.
This was so sweet! Happy Birthday 2 you & your son! 🥳
The opposite of my piece for The Last Flame. I just love the joy here.
There’s some good internal rhyme, but I’m a bit lost linguistically. Open or closed vowels? I’m struggling to decipher linguistic meaning here and need help.
The parallel birthdays make this especially beautiful a shared week, a shared love, a shared beginning.
Happy Birthday to you and your little son.🥳 I was 41 when I had my third child… we’re good buddies & enjoying our brief beach jaunt!💖
A beautiful ode to your son, Sandy. I need to kick my grits into gear if I’m to have a child before I’m 40 😱😱😱
Happy birthday to both of you!!🎂🍨🎁🎉🎈🥳
Aww, Sandy, a lovely coincidence! Your birthdays being so close. Happy birthday to both you and the little one!! And prepare for a great xmas!
Happy Birthday to you both, and a blessed child to have you as his mom!
awww happy birthday to you both
Oh my goodness, happy birthday to you both!! This put a huge smile on my face. The love seeping off of this is just so strong and pure.
Happy Birthday to a great pairing!!! What a beautiful gift from God to you :) Many, many blessings to you and to him.
Happy birthday to you, Sandy, and to your little ones!! Your Birthday week felt like you shared a piece of cake with us :). Thank you
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Happy birthday week to you both!
Happy birthday to your little boy, and happy 40th to you sandy! Sharing a birthday week makes the festive season so magical. Wishing you both a celebration as special as your story girl @Sandy Gillman
Aw this is so sweet 🩷🩷🩷🩷 I hope you guys have the most fun ever 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷
A poem filled with so much love! 🧡 Happy birthday to both of you, and enjoy your extra-special festive season, Sandy! 🎉🎉
Awww, wish you both a veryyyyy Happy Birthday! 🎂🎂✨️❤️