I was born 9 days after
Christmas. "What a wonderful time to be born!" you might be thinking. I would agree. Except for one thing that always bugged me when I was growing up:
If you are born soon after Christmas it means your
birthday gets blurred into the overwhelmingly expensive holiday gift-giving season. Your birthday falls in the season when people tend to have the least disposible income. Basically you get the short shrift when it comes to the
birthday present department. Instead you hear things like "Your christmas present is a double present this year!"
In retrospect, I don't care very much about presents any more. I work, and don't need any more
Lego products. One wonderful thing about being born soon after
Christmas is that even if you live far from your family, you can spend your birthday with them.