When You Were A Witness Did You Ever Celebrate A Birthday or Holidays? (page 2)

Reopened Mind

I never could understand why celebrating wedding anniversaries was OK, but celebrating birthdays was taboo. You only have one birthday, the rest are "anniversaries".

Reopened Mind

What really sucked was having your parents join when you were 10 years old, after having had all those years of a normal childhood, then having it yanked away. Going to school after Christmas break and having all the kids ask what you got for Christmas. And having grown up in the 50's and having those authentic, original bubble lights on your tree, then having your mom throw them all out and all the other Christmas ornaments and memories from childhood! My sister and I reminisce over those each year. Course, if mom hadn't thrown them out we would probably be fighting over them now! Ha

ShirleyW

My father didn't get baptized till I was around 20, so when I was growing up we had Holiday Dinners and went to others houses for the Holiday Dinners as well. We never celebrated birthdays but a friend of mine had no problem announcing after the Friday night mtg when we were teenagers that her new outfit was given to her for for her b'day, her father was an elder too.

OnTheWayOut

I went to my great grandmother's 100th birthday party. It was mainly to see family.

Seeing as I was an adult, there is no doubt we are part of an overlap generation, so that should make it okay.

exwhyzee

Even as a born ins who never had a birthday ourselves we never bought into the whole birthday nonsense even while we were " active" so we always did something special on our boy's birthdates. Sometimes it was a gift or toy or a special desert just for them or something they had been wanting for a long time. The idea was to let them know they were/are very much wanted, loved and it was a very big deal to us that they came into our lives. No matter how old they got, we'd corral them and administer the number of swats per year of age and a pinch to grow an inch and a sock to grow a block followed by a recanting of the story of the night they were born. To this day I do something on their birthdate. The last few years I've sent middle of the night text messages saying " X amount of years ago at this very hour the world became a little more wonderful when a certain little boy came into the world " etc....

We never told anyone about it, family or friends nor did we hide it. It was just a family thing that we felt was up to our own consciences. I was born on the 4th of July and it was always a bummer to have two cool things happening on the same day that I couldn't be part of. Lots of Witnesses who wouldn't dare celebrate a birthday and are utterly against celebrating the 4th of July, see nothing wrong with going to the beach and watching the fireworks along with all the worldly people who do the same thing as part of their celebration. It is such a load of nonsense and I'm glad I at least we can look back and say I made my boys know how special they are to us. It's what parents naturally want to do.

clearpoison

Yes, not with those names however. The things that were too obviously related to holiday like christmas tree was not used but special food, watching traditional TV-shows and all other rituals were there. For birthdays it was OK to receive gifts from unbelieving relatives, but there was no funny hats and cakes.

In short I could state that we semi-celebrated all relevant holidays.

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When You Were A Witness Did You Ever Celebrate A Birthday or Holidays?

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