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?
A fun listicle entry there…
OH my God I just love your porch.
And your flat idea!
Don’t burn it! Wave your Birthday Flag whenever you feel like it! #2, 3, and 4, is bound to happen sooner or later. 🙂
I must get a flag! I love the idea in every way (especially #10)! Great list!
Too funny! I think if I flew a birthday flag, I would have to add that I refuse to turn older than 29. Then I’d be ok with it!
Keep the flag! And yes, I agree with Ado – you have a dreamy porch!
Giggling! Each of my daughters has a personalized, 6 foot long, heavy duty vinyl birthday banner that goes up the night before to surprise them on their birthday mornings. My husband swears that when they are adults, we will sneak into their homes to surprise them (or creep them out) by hanging it up. Ellen
hahahahah i really like this list!
Lately nothing. I have a complex about my age…ugh.
Haha!! I love those festive flags!! I say fly it proud!! And, Happy (belated) Birthday…wish I lived closer and I could kidnap you and bring you presents 😉
I would LOVE a birthday flag! Other flags too. Where do you get them?
Jennifer, I have accumulated them through the years. Lowe’s, Micheal’s among other places. When I see one I like I snag it.
Do not burn the flag! I repeat do not burn the flag!! Love this list.
This is awesome! I never had a birthday flag. You get more gifts? Now I want one!
I always look forward to phone calls from friends and family, and treating myself to a new accessory or piece of clothing, plus…CAKE. ‘Nuff said.
Keep the flag. When your kids are grown and gone, it’s a tradition, part of the family ritual for birthdays, that they will remember fondly. “Remember that birthday flag mom would put out for the hamster’s birthday?”
….Mostly, it is a reminder that everyone in your home is important and deserving of celebration, including you!
🙂
Great list. Loved learning a little about your family.
I love your bday flag!! I’d take it…
….the front porch comes with, right? 🙂
and beware girlfriends moonlighting as kidnappers on your birthday — I ended up blindfolded, handcuffed, in the trunk of a car…and then front centre stage for a sock puppet performance I will never forget.
The sock was NOT on a hand.
I desperately want a birthday flag…and my birthday is 60 days away (HINT HINT!)
I’m so getting a birthday flag- love it!
Don’t burn the flag! Heck now I want to go buy one!
Every year on vacation I pretend it’s my birthday because there is nothing better than a room full of strangers singing to me. And free cake!
There’s nothing like a grand front porch, and honestly I think the flag flying: be it birthday, or some other holiday brings a bit of whimsy, a bit of happy.
Keep that flag flying on your birthday!