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Dear Reader,
It's apparent that I've become a birthday enabler and I'm going to have to change my ways. But it's not my fault that everyone in my family depends on me for keeping track of birthdays. Let's see whom can I blame this on? Since moms eventually get blamed when their kids end up on the therapist's couch anyway, and my mother and grandmother aren't here to defend themselves...(sorry Mom, sorry Grandma). I'm just kidding.
My Grandma Hale and my mother both kept a date book listing birthdays and anniversaries, so they never missed sending a card to family and friends. Even when a great-great shirt tail, never-met-this-relative-in-my-life's birthday was coming up, Mom would alert me in plenty of time, so I could put a card in the mail. Family reunions may have fallen by the wayside, but I knew I had relatives out there somewhere because on my birthday, "Howdy from great Aunt Sally" and "Blow out the candles and make a wish" greetings from cousin Andy would show up in my mailbox.
Yes, I learned the keeping-track-of-birthdays lesson well, and over the years my family has been very grateful for the favor of reminding them of upcoming birthdays. But make one little mistake and suddenly that nice favor that I've been doing all these years--everyone's pointing fingers at me. Is it my fault that my date book is small and sometimes it's confusing whether something is written on the Tuesday or Wednesday line? Is it my fault that when I called to remind my son his wife's birthday was on Wednesday and he said, "No Mom, it's on Tuesday," that he let me convince him he was wrong? Was it my fault that my daughter-in-law spent all day Tuesday dropping subtle hints to my son, and finally announcing late in the evening that today was her birthday!
See what I mean, the mother always ends up getting the blame. So instead of passing the birthday book responsibility on to my daughter and my granddaughter and so forth--I think I'll end the keeper-of-the-birthday-book tradition with me. While I'm still alive I'll keep reminding people (I've bought a larger date book) but once they lower me into the ground, my family will have to visit my grave site if they need a reminder--all of the family birthdays will be engraved on my tombstone.
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Suzanne Beecher
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