Birthdays in the Time of Corona

For her birthday in the beginning of April my oldest granddaughter was going to have a really special birthday treat and go with her “little family” and her best friend’s family to Great Wolf Lodge and enjoy lots of water slide play. Obviously that didn’t happen but her birthday was not forgotten and she had surprise visits throughout the day as friends and family came to serenade her from six feet away.

My niece was one of those who came by and a couple of weeks later she invited friends to stop by her porch window and wish her son a happy second birthday. We brought his present to the door and walked back 6 feet.

The walk or drive by birthday became the standard in my daughter’s neighborhood and when one of the parents had a birthday they kicked it up a notch. All her mom friends gathered on the sidewalk grass strip in front of her house for a birthday toast.

My youngest granddaughter’s birthday is coming up in June. She has been talking about a pool party since last year and while that’s still the plan it will probably just be a family party because while socially distanced birthday celebrations might work for adults they sound pretty impossible for children!