Tag: birthday

  • Boo! it’s a birthday

    Goblins chortling, witches cackling or ghosts jumping up from behind a plastic tombstone do not phase the child. He laughs and runs up to look at every store or yard display while his older cousin cowers behind the nearest adult. Spooky, scary things have fascinated the youngest grandson for more than a year. In the…

  • Happy birthday Maretta!

    Incredible! Today, my oh-so-much-older-than-me cousin celebrates reaching the official age for retirement. Is this that awesome, much older, wiser, cuter and artistic cousin who came to stay for a few days to help my mom with her passel of five kids by ironing the basket of clothes that never seemed to be empty? In those…

  • Always birthday cake time

    The great thing about having a big family is it automatically guarantees lots of folks to eat birthday cake. With five children in six years, my parents insured that even in January – when we had three birthdays inside of a week – the cakes would disappear. At the end of the birthday supper, Mom…