It was my daughter's birthday on 21st Sept but as always it coincided with her exams, and this time it was with her maths exam. But few years back we decided that we wont crib about this anymore and would celebrate it on 2nd Oct (Gandhi Jayanti). It is a holiday and exams are always over by then. So its been working quite well since then. We invite her friends over and it is fun to see them enjoying and relaxing after the torturous exams.
She turned 14 and as always it was difficult deciding a gift for her. Last birthday we gifted her a watch and the year before we went a little overborad and got her an ipad. We are not one of those parents who pamper their children with expensive gifts, and so the guilt made us remind her every other day that she should not take things for granted and that we wanted a tab at home and her birthday was just an excuse.
My daughter is very fond of reading and I am very proud to say that i am the reason she got interested in books. She had been recently complaining that she is done reading all books a teenager could have read. It has happened so often that we went to a bookstore and spent hours there but came back without buying any books. So I decided to do a little bit of net searching. I came out with a list of must read books for teenagers. Out of the 10 in my list she confirmed that she had already read 8 of them. So I decided to gift those for her birthday. I tried all the stores - Landmark, Crossword..but could'nt find. I checked Amazon, voila the books were there. I decided moving forward i would do book shopping online.
My husband and I decided to gift her an MP3 player. We were again cautious and decided NOT to buy any branded expensive stuff. When we couldnt find any non branded MP3 players, we almost decided to go for iPod Nano (which was a whopping Rs13000) we had a little discussion that even if we buy, we would tell my daughter that is was only Rs 3000 (didn't want her to think that birthday gifts are a big deal and price was not even a factor). But sanely we dropped the idea of an iPod, went to a small gizmo showroom and bought an MP3 worth Rs 2500.
I also got her a nice simple dress which I knew she would like it.
On the night before her birthday she told me she wanted to were color dress to school...ohhh. With all the restrictions they have in school on the type of dress they can wear to school, it was almost a nightmare. I took out one of my dress and altered it and I must say she was looking gorgeous.
Here are some pics of her birthday. Her birthday with friends is yet to be celebrated. Will have a post on that too.
She turned 14 and as always it was difficult deciding a gift for her. Last birthday we gifted her a watch and the year before we went a little overborad and got her an ipad. We are not one of those parents who pamper their children with expensive gifts, and so the guilt made us remind her every other day that she should not take things for granted and that we wanted a tab at home and her birthday was just an excuse.
My daughter is very fond of reading and I am very proud to say that i am the reason she got interested in books. She had been recently complaining that she is done reading all books a teenager could have read. It has happened so often that we went to a bookstore and spent hours there but came back without buying any books. So I decided to do a little bit of net searching. I came out with a list of must read books for teenagers. Out of the 10 in my list she confirmed that she had already read 8 of them. So I decided to gift those for her birthday. I tried all the stores - Landmark, Crossword..but could'nt find. I checked Amazon, voila the books were there. I decided moving forward i would do book shopping online.
My husband and I decided to gift her an MP3 player. We were again cautious and decided NOT to buy any branded expensive stuff. When we couldnt find any non branded MP3 players, we almost decided to go for iPod Nano (which was a whopping Rs13000) we had a little discussion that even if we buy, we would tell my daughter that is was only Rs 3000 (didn't want her to think that birthday gifts are a big deal and price was not even a factor). But sanely we dropped the idea of an iPod, went to a small gizmo showroom and bought an MP3 worth Rs 2500.
I also got her a nice simple dress which I knew she would like it.
On the night before her birthday she told me she wanted to were color dress to school...ohhh. With all the restrictions they have in school on the type of dress they can wear to school, it was almost a nightmare. I took out one of my dress and altered it and I must say she was looking gorgeous.
Here are some pics of her birthday. Her birthday with friends is yet to be celebrated. Will have a post on that too.
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