Is it okay to burn the birthday flag?
I’m a flag person.
I admit it.
I have flags for St. Patty’s, Easter, Fall, Thanksgiving….on and on.
Here’s our birthday flag.
This week Stasha’s Listicles focus on birthdays at the suggestion of Robbie of Fractured Family Tales.
Since I had a birthday recently, this topic made me think of our birthday flag. With each passing year, I’m tempted not to fly the flag on my birthday.
It might be a good idea to draw up a list of 10 reasons to fly the birthday flag ~ before I burn her.
10. Feeling very down one random day (say February 24) and you want people to think it is your birthday so you might end up with gifts.
9. You are a child in the family. They still get excited about birthdays and I still get excited for them.
8. It’s dad’s birthday. And since he pays for the majority of the birthday fun around here, long may birthday cheer wave for him.
7. It’s an authenticated pet birthday. Unlike the turtle’s who we like to think has a birthday sometime around the winter solstice.
6. A visiting friend or relative with a birthday is always cause to fly the flag.
5. You forget it’s your birthday so when you turn in the driveway and see the flag, you have that nice “aha” moment.
4. You fly it on your real birthday and people who have forgotten might bring over presents. This didn’t happen this year.
3. You fly it on your birthday and people are reminded to call and take you out to lunch. Nope.
2. You fly it on your birthday and all your bestest friends in the world see it and kidnap you and take you on a surprise dinner to your favorite restaurant in your favorite city just like a reality TV show. Never.
1. And the best reason to keep flying the birthday flag is even though you are older than some really smelly sweaters rotting in your suffocatingly hot attic…
It’s your birthday, dam*it.
What do you look forward to on your birthday?
