Mom's 60th Birthday

Sunday was my wonderful mother's birthday. She is such a fun person! As a child I was sometimes embarrased by some of the things she did, like talk to strangers at the grocery store. But now I appreciate all those things about her. She is so friendly and caring to everyone. She loves people and they love her. She is a reading teacher now, and she loves those kids as well as all her grandchildren. She has taught me to love to read, to love the color red (that is passed to her from her mom), to love life, and how to cook. (I am still working on the cooking thing.) For her special day we made her dinner and had cake and ice cream. We also tried our own version of the Korean tradition of kowtow. Each person bows to the honored one and says something about them. It was sweet and funny and touching. Something mom loves. I also put together a shadow box of two dresses that were hers as a baby and a picture of her around two. We then watched Enchanted to end her perfect day. We love you mom, you are the Best!

Random thoughts

So, I keep thinking I need to update this every few days and then I realize that my life really isn't that eventful. I feel busy, but then I think about what I want to post, and it doesn't seem like there is anything you would really care to know about. Sad, huh?
We started soccer Saturday. I have 3 kids playing, so my Saturdays are gone for 7 weeks. Luckily Mr. Kate is a coach and can just be in charge of that child each week. It was so cold. I hope that this week is nice, like they are forecasting.
Next thing, I really enjoyed conference. I am going to try to download and listen to the talks, so I can hear them again and learn more, and hopefully do more too.
I have had a headache for 4 days and yesterday I got the head cold to go with it. I'm just kinda tired and feeling yuck.
My sister-in-law had her baby on Tuesday. He is a few weeks early, but things seem to be ok. This is another reason I want to feel better, so I can hold and play with him.
Finally, my youngest just makes me laugh and he says the kinds of things that make your heart smile. Yesterday I was tickling, wrestling with him and he said "this is one of my best days ever!" I asked him if it was even better than the airplane ride. He said "Mom, you get to have thousands of best days!" Then later he and oldest brother were doing the wishbone thing (having saved it from dinner the other day, so it would be ready for wishing.) They made their wishes and pulled. The youngest got the larger part. We asked him what he wished for and he said "So I can be a superhero!" How cute is he?! The picture is of the youngest with his cousin, being superheros.


P.S. Youngest just asked "So when is my wish going to come true?" What do ya do?