the idea: celebrate everyone’s birthday within a season of the family visit

My family is from Michigan.  They are loud, kind, and apart from a main few they are spread out all over the country.  About once a year we get together and when we do there always seems to be a birthday nearby.

Today it was my grandmother’s 92nd birthday.  We had presents, meatloaf, long conversations, and, of course, cake.  Because my birthday comes up next I was added to the family song and got to blow out the candles with my grandmother.  After all, yesterday when she was 91 and I was 19, we were the same age only backwards.