Coronavirus and Birthdays

How We Are Handling Birthdays During A Pandemic!

What a wild time we are living in. Whether you believe it's real or a hoax, chances are you are at home social distancing right now because of COVID-19. And with that comes the challenge of celebrating special events without being able to leave the house to do so.

Mid-March my kids left school, for what we didn't know then would be the last time, and we were planning a super fun family day to celebrate our youngest child's birthday. The original plan was to take him to see Onward at the local theater and then go bowling at the alley next door.

It is the first year in his short life where he was adamant about what he wanted to do for the day, a movie and bowling. We were so excited to give him his day. But a pandemic got in the way.

That weekend my husband and I heard rumblings that Spring Break might be extended and we might end up being under a stay at home order. So we went to Target and got some gifts for our little guy. We made sure to focus his gifts on his fave color: GREEN!

St. Patricks Day makes shopping very easy for our little guy.

He has the most expressive face.

We also got cake mix and frosting and some food coloring just in case stores weren't open to pick up the cake he wanted. (Note: stores ended up being essential and not closing, but Nicky chose a cake by Daddy anyway)

Quadruple layer chocolate cake by Dad.

Green inside for his fave color! 

So yummy.

I then thought... what are we going to do besides cake and presents to make this special! Well, we got the idea in our heads to make it a movie theater experience at home. I got on Amazon and we ordered all the yummy movie theater treats we all love.

Our fave movie treats.

Nostalgia Popcorn maker!

Once I had those it was time to figure out how to make popcorn more special than just in a mixing bowl. The kids like air-popped popcorn from our old time machine. I like it from the microwave (I know, so bad). I got these cute buckets on Amazon.

Popcorn buckets.

Disney made life easy on us by releasing Onward (it's on Disney+ now too) to digital early, so we bought it! YAY! Thankful for our streaming services right now.

So we were able to make his day really special. He got green gifts, his choice for dinner delivered to our door, green cake with chocolate frosting and to have a movie night with all the special treats we'd get from the theater... and then some.

Our oldest daughter has a birthday in May and we'll be doing the same birthday movie night! We'll have her fave meal delivered, she'll pick the movie, and we'll spend it hunkered down as a family!

I hope you all find this helpful not only for birthdays, but for a fun way to make family movie night a little more special!

Thanks for reading,
The Ginger