Happy Happy Birthday Baby!

Mom’s BIRTHDAY !!!

Happy Birthday to you dear one. Hah! You never thought you’d live to be 91 and here you are, survivor of yet another surgery, and on the mend once again!!

Remember last year when all your kids gathered and most of your grands, and your cousins and your beloved nieces and nephews from near and far, and so many old and new friends, and folks from the Oak Hills Ward? It was a grand event, and as we sit here on our humid, hot, steamy island, it hardly even seems real that we were all together on that freezing, but lovely day a year ago.

The picture we took for you has the words, which I’m not sure are discernible,” Happy, Happy birthday baby”, like the song you always sing us for our birthdays. So, try to picture us singing it to you. But of course we can’t do it as cute as you do.

When we show your picture to people here, they think you look very lively for 90 years old. And we agree. Because when you think of it, even being alive is lively for a 90 year old. J

We ate mangos and bananas for breakfast, in your honor today. Well, we eat them most days, but today we toasted you as we ate them.

We are writing this in the evening on your birthday, but it is still before dawn in Utah. So, we can predict with certain, 100% accuracy what the weather will be like on your birthday, here in the province of Negros Oriental. It will be mostly sunny, with some overcast. High 28 degrees, low 26, slight showers in Dumaguete, heavy burst in Amlan in the evening. Bet you never got a weather forecast on your birthday that was certain to come about—even if it is in another hemisphere.

We sure love and miss you. We haven’t heard if you will get sprung from the rehab place today, but we hope wherever you are that you can feel our love for you and you can celebrate the amazing-ness of your life.

Anyone who reads this post, feel free to post a comment to send Tillie/Melvina/Mom/Grandma a birthday wish.