Birthday Idea

I love blogging for so many reasons.

One reason is for the ideas that we get to come across.

Last fall I read an idea on someones blog that I tucked away. 

Of course now I can't remember which blog it was.

If you are reading this and it was your idea --- thank you -- I loved it.

The idea was to have a "birthday month" for your spouse. During that month you do things for them all month - do as many things as their birthday age.

Since Jason's birthday was the last day of Feb. it worked out real nice. 

At the beginning of the month I put a sign on the door he comes in that said, 

"It's Birthday Month! Be watching for 35 Birthday wishes."

Then throughout the month I gave him little birthday gifts. 

It wasn't every day - just whenever.

Here's a couple examples . . . 

- I bought his favorite drink that I rarely buy and stuck it in the fridge and 

wrote "Happy Birthday" on it with a sharpie.

- While he was out of town I took down the Christmas lights (a first for me) and texted him a picture of it saying "Happy Birthday the lights are down."

- I wrote him special notes and put them in different places.

- I left a candy bar on his desk and said, "Here's a late night study snack, Happy Birthday."

I tried to mix it up.

It was fun.

I will say it was a bit challenging to come up with and do 35 of them.

You could do a "birthday week" and just do one a day.

I just liked the idea of mixing in things to do for him and things to give him.

It was fun to have a month where I thought so much about what things he likes or how I could help him.

Try it.

It was fun.

We celebrated with a night out on his birthday with his brother's and their wives.

That was one of the gifts too. 

It was a fun night.