"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them". ~Desmond Tutu"What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories." ~George Eliot
"The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts (i.e. Freihoffer's chocolate sheet cake w/ white icing on 7th St. (one piece for you....one piece for me...) and Rum Cake at Lake George), hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending (i.e. keeping Uncle Bill engaged in conversation as Sista/Cuz MB crawled out the door to escape the grounding sentence), and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together". ~Erma Bombeck
Hope this is your happiest birthday ever...and only the beginning of a wonderful year that brings you a fraction of the happiness and LOVE that we have felt from you....growing up and still...We LOVE YOU!!!
Happy Birthday!!!
2 comments:
"Thanks for the memories, as the song goes, and the cards, etc.
I've misplaced my password again.
It wasn't easy taking care of all of you, that's why I needed more cake...And Uncle Bill if he ever got wise to what we doing, he would have "failed to see the humor
in the situation" like some of us remember. Love to you all, Sue
Hope you had a great day Sue!
Love,
the Martins
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