It is inevitable. A Dutch birthday party can be best described as a 'party' that involves sitting around in a circle all afternoon and chatting while drinking tea or coffee and eating cake.
Birthdays are greeted with enthusiasm in Dutch culture. Family and friends will probably visit, call or send a card. Among the Dutch, instead of people showering the birthday person with special treats, it is the birthday person's place to treat those around him or her.
A birthday represents a lap around the sun — 365 Earth days, or 8,760 hours.
Cheers to another trip around the sun – happy birthday! Hoping your birthday is extra sweet. Sending you happy, dancing, confetti-popping, cake-filled birthday wishes!
May God bless you on your birthday, and always. Happy birthday to you! Today I celebrate the life that God has given you, and give thanks to Him for the many blessings you bring to my life. May the LORD bless you on your birthday, and may your day be filled with joy and your year full of many blessings.
phrase. If you say that something is around the corner, you mean that it will happen very soon.
A “golden birthday” refers to that one birthday — the once-in-a-lifetime event — where the age of your birth year matches the day you were born (eg. turning 18 on April 18th).
“A full moon represents the end of a lunar cycle, so its occurrence on your birthday could reflect endings or culminations to come in the year ahead,” says Montúfar.
Weather folklore says a ring around the sun or moon means it will rain soon. While that is not always the case, it often is actually true. Cirrus clouds typically move into an area well ahead of a storm system that may cause rain in the next day or so.
A Dutch circle party (the name is not a euphemism) can be best described as a 'party' that involves sitting in a circle all afternoon and chatting while drinking tea and eating cake.
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Moreover, both mother and father have an equal role to play in raising the kid. They also have a legally allowed (unpaid) day off work for dads to look after their children. This makes Dutch parents the happiest in the world and happy parents raise happy kids.
All this congratulating happens because it is custom for the Dutch to congratulate everyone at the birthday party. It is not (as I later discovered) because they are unsure who the birthday boy or girl is (don't try to be helpful by pointing).
Start with the year you were born, then simply subtract your age. The result is your 'mirror year'. For example, if you've recently turned 25 then subtract that number from the year 1989 to get a mirror year of 1964.
A golden birthday is sometimes called a champagne birthday, so it's a great excuse to bust out the bubbles.
Noun. heavenly birthday (plural heavenly birthdays) A birthday of a person after his or her death.
Reporting in the American Journal of Human Biology, researchers who examined the birth dates and first-period dates of more than 1,600 females discovered that girls born in summer months (June, July and August) tend to start menstruating at a slightly younger age than those born at other times of the year.
Sentences: Earth revolves around the sun in 365 days, 5 hours, 59 minutes and 16 seconds. The time a planet takes to revolve around the sun is called a year.
But although the Sun returns to hang out in the same place every 12 months, the Moon is off doing its own thing—it's in a different phase every year. By looking at what phase the Moon's in on your b-day, you can get an idea of what your year ahead will be like.
“Wishing you a day filled with happiness and a year filled with joy. Happy birthday!” “Sending you smiles for every moment of your special day…Have a wonderful time and a very happy birthday!”
You are such a special blessing to me and I wish you a wonderful Birthday filled with love, joy and all good things you enjoy most! I'm so glad to have such an amazing person in my life! Thank you for always being there for me. May your special day bring you a huge joy and true happiness!