80!

Tuesday was Dorothy’s 80th birthday! We sang to her at school and I think she had a great day. We had her party from 4-6 (as all of the parties have been since we got here). I think we had at least 40 people there which was amazing as some of the bigger families are on vacation and out of the country…It was a joint birthday party as Maria (Swedish nurse here for 10 months) was turning 25. Celebrating 105 years of life—and counting! We had 10 cakes, sugared peanuts and cookies baked by 6 people and plenty of tea and coffee. Dorothy’s daughter had come in May with the NC Presby group and had given me a box to give to Dorothy on her birthday. She opened it at breakfast to find 115 cards full of birthday wishes many of them signed by groups of people—the note said that since they couldn’t be here to celebrate with her this was the best they could do. If she opened one every 6 minutes it would take her 12 hours to get through the box. Pretty entertaining!