You're ready to be in a bigger house or in a different location but you can remember picking out paint colors and celebrating birthdays round the kitchen table.
I asked for another one like that when my 11th birthday came round and received a Brontë bargain bumper-pack.
It so happens that 2013 is the 100th birthday of Round About a Pound a Week by the Fabian and feminist, Maud Pember Reeves.
When your birthday comes round, throw a big party.
I heard this attributed in part to clean living; she had, for example, celebrated her recent birthday with rounds of ice skating and bowling.
Poorer children tend to get more pocket money and will get crisps and snacks in their lunch boxes - but these are the children most likely to be disappointed when birthdays come round.
Priced out of their spiritual home of West London and living with their three teenage kids in Brockley, they begrudgingly do the half-century birthday party rounds while bemoaning rising school fees and child benefit changes with their equally exasperated gang.
The days still feel as though they pass at an average speed, but we're surprised when markers of time indicated how many months and years have passed or at how quickly birthdays come round yet again.
To honor Madonna's milestone birthday, HuffPost rounded up 60 of her most memorable moments over the years.
THE round birthday cake was small and simple — "Happy Birthday Mario," it read.
