Your Own Line of Birthday Cards

I'm terrible with birthdays.  Anniversaries?  Bad.  Other dates of special importance?  Forget it.  I am bad.  I'm not proud of it.  I wish I were better.  Even if you're my BFF or my Dad, you won't get a card from me.  (And if there's a present at some point - forget about a bow on the package - but that's another story.)  Anyway, after much recent reflection, I've decided that this bad-at-birthdays thing wasn't always me.  I used to be good at it.  I used to have everyone's birthday on my calendar.  Often with a flourish of fun colored pen.  Anniversaries -yep, got 'em.  I'd even note the year of age or years married.  To mark the occasion, I would shop the card aisles endlessly, looking for just the right card for that person.  And then, at the end of the year, I would transfer those dates onto my new calendar.  What happened to that person?

Let's blame it on my first Palm Pilot.  The first electronic calendar.  Was it that I didn't transfer the birthdays onto it?  Was it that having the date in black and another shade of black on my screen wasn't nearly as pleasing as the fun colors, flowers, stars and what-nots on my calendar?  Or was it that after a few months, the data I did enter was magically wiped clean like nothing at all had happened that month?  And then what?  My first child came along.... and the millions of brain cells that went to sleep along with her arrival..... and then.... oh it's been downhill ever since!  Because I don't know about you, but sometimes the technology that is supposed to be so cool and make my life so easy, instead  brings me to my knees in an overwhelming cloud of confusion.

I've been reading "The Happiness Project" and one of the chapters is dedicated to being a better friend.  The author thinks that she can be a better friend by remembering friend's birthdays.  I think she's right - but I'm going to test it myself.  Because I do want to remember my friend's birthdays, and the birthday's of their husbands and their kids. 
So it got me thinking, I not only want to remember birthdays, I want to send birthday cards to honor the day.  I'm going back to putting birthdays and anniversaries on my desk calendar in fun colored ink.  I may also try one of the on-line programs - but, knowing my history, I'm not too optimistic.  Yes, I'll still acknowledge the facebook birthday - because that is fun, but I want to send a card in the mail.  However, let's be realistic - I'm not going to make it down to Rite Aid to buy a birthday card for every person.  What if I have a birthday card already on hand that looks super cute and cool and I could send to everyone?  It didn't get picked out personally but isn't it a kick up from sending an email?  I think so!  Stay tuned for my design coming soon!  And be thinking about your design - what would you put on your own line of birthday cards?  Send me a note!