The Day You Were Born

My mom surprised all of us with a wonderful Christmas gift this year.  She wrote up each story of the day we were born.  It also included a few other stories about each of us and then she went through all her pictures and put together many pages of pictures of each of us growing up.  She put it all together and gave us each a copy of it.

To say I love it is a total understatement.  This book is amazing.  It made me both laugh and cry.  I loved reading the stories about me but also about each of my sisters and brother.  I loved reading it from my mom's perspective.  She even included a section about my sister Debbie who died when she was 6 months old.  I loved reading this and it had many details that I had never heard before.  And to read about it now that I am a mother makes it that much more heartbreaking and special to hear what my parents went through losing their daughter when she was so little and just starting her life.

Mom, Thank You!  This gift has meant so much to me.  Thanks for all the time you took to put this together so nicely and what a true gift it is to read it.  I will treasure it forever and I can't wait to show it to my kids when they get older.