Dear Ane, Today you are fourteen years old.  I remember being fourteen myself so very vividly, so the memories that you are making now are the ones that you will keep for the rest of your life.  (It may have also had something to do with Auntie being born when I was 14 – however, […]

Today is Obachan’s birthday… but I don’t think I’m allowed to say how old she is.  She might argue with me. We had a birthday dinner for her at Grandma and Gichan’s house on Sunday, which included lots of her favorite foods, and her favorite dessert – cream puffs.  And we took a few good […]

Even though our wedding anniversary and Tad’s birthday share the same date, this year the Webmaster and I decided to just do something for ourselves. How nice of the Mariners to decide to throw a party for Edgar Martinez all weekend, and we invited ourselves. Grandma and Gichan watched the kids for us, so it […]

Dear Tad, Today you are TWELVE.  You are 12 years old on the 12th – this is your “golden birthday,” and you’ve already had so much birthday fun with your friends.  As frustrating as it was to try and get a hold of your school friends to try and invite them to your party yesterday, […]