March Family Birthday Party

 

Our family’s March Birthday Party was today after church.

Originally scheduled for last weekend, that dreaded stomach bug forced us to reschedule or risk having a lot of sick people.

We joined together to celebrate Little Man’s 8th and Katherine’s 19th birthdays. With the size of our immediate family, grandparents, siblings, nieces and a nephew the

house is full without adding in friends.

We had a good time opening gifts, eating chocolate cake and ice cream, then playing games. I love seeing my bigs and my littles interacting together.

An interesting fact about larger families, maybe all families, is that you often save things to hand down from child to child. Over the years that has included toys, clothes, and school books. We also have a bucket full of old birthday candles with various numbers. After burning them for the few seconds it takes to sing, we wipe them off and throw them in the bucket until the next kid gets the right age.

Why? Good question.

You are probably wondering why we would save a dollar candle for two to three years until the next child reaches that age? I honestly don’t know. It’s obviously a cheap thing to rebuy. It’s just frugal, I guess. Why throw out a perfectly useable item?

>>on a side note, minimalism sounds wonderful until I try to put it in practice for myself, much less for a house of 7 occupants<<

As I got ready to throw the #8 candle back in the bucket, I was once again reminded that there is no reason to save it now. We will never again celebrate our child’s 8th birthday.

No, we will never celebrate Millie’s 8th birthday with this candle. We will always honor the day she came into this world, but we won’t celebrate it again.

I threw the #8 candle away tonight. Then as I looked in the bucket, I spied the #1, #3, and #4.

All used.

All useless.

All trash, yet I dropped them back in the bucket to deal with another day.

This is the face of grief.

This is a day of joy.

This is happiness mingled with sorrowful tears.

{Because of Millie}

Blessings sweet friends…

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I still believe in Millie’s Miracle

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