Family occasions

Usage examples of birthdays.

He also soon found out that birthdays, like gang wars, were now considered kid stuff, and today there was no party.

Ernest found a little journal, brief in its records indeed, but we learn from it that on all those wedding and birthdays, when I fancied his austere religion made him hold aloof from our merry-making, he was spending the time in fasting and praying for us and for our children!

Ah, there are no partings and meetings now that leave discords in the remembrance, no neglected birthdays, no forgotten courtesies.

But he and Monroe always called each other on their birthdays and at Christmas just to check in.

I knew from past experience that it would be a sad day for me, just as their birthdays and special holidays were always tinged with sorrow, hard for me to bear without them.

Mom brought it in, and a couple of the kids having birthdays were like twelve, was the private tip-off on who the cake was really for.