My mother was wise; Now, she's just part of the universe as a whole.

But, yeah. It worked well. No One day for Big celebration. But a whole week+1 of "Go ahead and have an extra serving of dessert, 'cause it's your Octave!"

So many people on my father's side of the family (including my father and I) had birthdays clustered around January and February that one year, my aunt decided to pick one day in the middle and have a communal birthday party / massive, almost whole family reunion.