A very special birthday

Sunday evening we had the chance to celebrate the birthday of Lily's sunbeam teacher. Guess what she turned 89! Can you believe it? She is the best and Lily loves to pray for her every night. Lily used to just pray "bless everyone and everything". I told her she should pray for her teacher and she said "I already blessed EVERYONE" so we talked about the importance of naming individuals now she goes on loooong lists of people to bless to the point where I interject a "in the name of..." to get her to finish.

We had a delicious cake too. Some wonderful strawberries I froze last year mixed with sugar and clear jel between to layers of homemade yellow cake and topped with whipping cream. Between that and the chocolate chip cookies I made with real butter instead of margarine-I haven't had a lot of control on the sweets this week.

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Lily and Matt and the destruction of a whole box of kleenex Tom Ari in the tree Matt's birthday

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