The emphasis on celebrating one’s day of birth is a new social and cultural phenomenon in the U.S. As a result of the Industrial Revolution, two interesting factors played into birthday festivities.

• Children became less valued as workers and more emotionally valued as family members.

• The widespread use of clocks and pocket watches to note time helped people mark the passage of time.

This year current year is my Golden Birthday year. See the trivia questions below for what that means.

Tomorrow is my birthday. Tomorrow is also my husband’s birthday. After we share that fact, he also quips that we share the same wedding anniversary We celebrated it yesterday as we had our family Easter festivities.

• What group is said to have first celebrated birthdays? 

Answer: Egyptians.

• What group of people invented birthday cakes? 

Answer: Germans

• What is a Golden Birthday?

 Answer: When you turn the same age as the date of your birthday.

Have a great week and a Happy Birthday when it arrives!