Our family gets to celebrate birthdays for five months in a row every year, beginning with July and ending in November, just in time for Christmas. I grew up with a lot of birthday celebrating. Being a twin, there were two of us, so most of the time we had big parties with our friends and a separate family party because of our large extended family. It was great! Twice the cake, twice the fun, twice the love! As a parent, I do birthdays a little differently, and by differently, I mean I have no exact way whatsoever. I watch some of my amazing friends do these fantastic decorations and surprises and I love it! But that's where it sort of ends for me. I'm thrilled for my friends and their kids, that they make the time to do that stuff, don't get me wrong, I love it, but it doesn't work out that way for me. Somehow it seems that there is always something happening in our lives to round out the beginning and end of a birthday week or month and it ends up taking priority o