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Post by virgoscorpio on Nov 16, 2011 17:39:42 GMT -5
My half birthday is March 10th. Funny how I have read this book before and I just figured out my half birthday now...
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Post by sparklymouse on Nov 18, 2011 15:04:56 GMT -5
My birthday is the week after New Year, which means my half birthday is four days after 4th of July. Stupid holidays get in the way of everything! Why can't it be all about meeeeee?
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Katie
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Post by Katie on Jan 11, 2012 14:06:43 GMT -5
My birthday is 2 weeks before christmas. I never thought to celebate a half birthday though. My parents never forgot my birthday growing up and always did something for me and got me a present despite it being near Christmas. The reason for this was my mom was a January baby and growing up her parents told her that since she had just gotten a bunch for Christmas she did not need anything on her birthday. My mom said she was not going to do that to her kids even if we had a birthday near a holiday.
Our anniversary is Feb 23rd and my husband combines a valentine's gift with an anniversary gift. Which kind of sucks. I get one present and one date night for both.
I never got the kids being allowed to pick and choose who they could give valentine's to or karen being able to hurt kids by giving out birthday invitations to only some right at school. We had a 'give a card to everyone' rule on valentine's day. A lot of kids would give something special to just friends like a fancier card or a small present but we all had to at least give everyone a generic card.
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Post by zoar3 on Feb 7, 2014 22:16:30 GMT -5
I just read and have been trying to think of ways Karen's 1/2 birthday could have worked better. I did think the idea was great and Karen sure put a lot of energy into the party. I did feel badly for both Karen and her classmates that the party didn't go over better. Since it was so close to Halloween, maybe the party could have had 1/2 a Halloween theme. Each of the guests could have worn something from their costumes. Maybe 1/2 the guests could have done one activity or game outside and while the other half inside and then switched. For food they could have made muffin pizzas with different toppings on each half and of course a cake with two different flavors. Now I want to have a half birthday party. My 1/2 birthday is in November so maybe the other half could be autumn/Thanksgiving related. The other unrelated to the party thought I had was it would have been cool had David Michael not necessarily agreed to be the back half of Karen's dinosaur costume but if he had gone trick or treating in the little house neighborhood. That led me to smile and wonder why Karen never thought of trick or treating for maybe 1/2 an hour in each of her two neighborhoods. I remember Andrew (in a different book) had the great idea that he and Karen could trick or treat at both houses. I also thought Nancy's red riding hood costume idea was so clever with her basket being able to hold goodies. Cute story. P.S. Who are the two kids on the cover with Karen? Maybe Jannie and Ian? I looked at the class picture in a KIMCC book.
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Post by Honeybee on Feb 7, 2014 23:18:22 GMT -5
My half birthday is February 15th. Coming up. My dad told me, when my half birthday is. He will say it, every year. (Or almost every year.) Here's list of the half birthdays. Tells you, when your half birthday is. Has celebs birthdays, on there. www.halfbirthday.com/half-birthday-calculator
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scrounge
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Post by scrounge on Feb 10, 2014 19:37:14 GMT -5
Like I said I think her friends would probably have been nicer about it if she'd invited everyone and then played the half games. I think they would have been more willing to go along with it. But I also think that half the kids doing one thing and half another and then switching would be more fun for the guests than half of the guests not even getting to play any given game.
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LadyDru
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Post by LadyDru on Jan 18, 2019 9:09:40 GMT -5
All those people who were teasing Karen at the beginning needed to be smacked. Loved how she wrote the letter afterwards. Kind of hard for me to speak my mind, even now, though I must admit it is easier for me to do it in writing than in person. It WAS kind of mean that she didn't want to invite half the class but looking at it from a neutral angle Pamela was hypocritical to be upset since she only wanted to invite Jannie and Leslie to HER birthday party. And now neither of them wanted to be Natalie's partner in #47. Wish there was one where Karen turned 8.
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Post by sparklymouse on Feb 3, 2022 23:18:03 GMT -5
The "Friends and Company" TV show that started the teasing sounded like the worst shows on TGIF. "Lucas" left the house in goofy, 3X too big pajamas, his dog tripped him, and he landed in a mud puddle. I picture that Cody guy who lived in the driveway on Step by Step, lol.
I had to look up what an Ultrasaurus. I don't know why Karen picked that one. It just looks like a Brontosaurus. (Falling down the dinosaur hole... Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, etc... THEY ALL LOOK THE SAME. What was with all these long noodle neck creatures?) Karen made a dinosaur face on a pillow case. That sounded horrible. Then Lisa made her cut a head hole in her back so that Andrew could see where he was going. The illustration is funny.
Addie ate a cream cheese and grape jelly sandwich for lunch. That made my stomach hurt. I had to look that up, too. There are recipes for cream cheese/grape jelly dips like it is a natural combination that people eat on purpose. I didn't know.
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livvy
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Post by livvy on Jan 1, 2023 11:07:47 GMT -5
What a stupid idea to have a half birthday. Didn't like this book and Karen being too bossy again.
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Post by sparklymouse on Jan 1, 2023 15:57:40 GMT -5
Do you like a single thing that you read? I’m not sure that I’ve ever read a positive comment from you. Maybe this is not the book series for you.
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