Celebrating Mimi

Today we are celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of Mimi's entrance into this world! Happy Birthday, Mimi! In addition to some other, more tangible gifts, we kids wanted to do something special for her on this momentous occasion, so we decided to come up with a list of sixty of our favorite Mom Memories. Claire, the recent college grad, determined that each of the four kids would need to contribute fifteen memories to make a total of sixty, so that's what we did. Tonight during our birthday skype call, after the kids had showed her the beautiful cards they made her and given a special piano concert, we read her our list of Mom/Mimi Memories.

I thought we would share them here, even though some of them won't mean much to those of you who aren't Mimi. I've put in parentheses who contributed each memory. Here goes...

Our Fifteen Mimi Memories

1. (Jason) Being invited to come and cook steaks for Dad's 45th birthday before Beth and I were even dating--an obvious sign that you were trying to set us up!

2. (The kids) Eating breakfast in bed when we visit your house.

3. (Beth) Our Beloved Disciple trip--Athens, Corinth, Patmos, Ephesus, Mykonos--an amazing trip!

4. (The kids) Playing with Jesse at your house!

5. (Beth) Our Cape Cod trip--playing on the beach, touring New England (all of it, I think!), running up all the steps we could find, reluctantly documenting it in those notebooks you made us keep, and watching lots of movies in the van all the way there and back

6. (Beth) You making my prom dress

7. (Beth) My napkin notes

8. (Beth) You meeting all the little girls over here named "Ismi"

9. (The kids) When Mimi & Papaw--and their friends from America--were our teachers!

10. (Beth & Jason) Your cauliflower bouquet at Fagnoon

11. (Beth) Our family devotional times on vacations--blowing our horns, turning the other cheek, searching for treasures, and lots more

12. (Beth) All those matching Chocolate Soup outfits the boys and I wore

13. (Beth) The styrofoam bowls

14. (Beth) Planning Jason's 40th birthday surprise

15. (Beth) My many, many angel food with strawberry birthday cakes

Happy Birthday, Mimi! We know this is going to be your best decade yet!