Miriam's Seventeenth Birthday

Seventeen years ago, our family was delighted to welcome Miriam to our home.  Since then she has grown into a kind, loving, and beautiful young woman, and tonight we are excited to be celebrating her birthday.  For the celebration we will be eating hamburgers and cake and ice cream.  We will also be watching a movie called “That Thing You Do” which is a family favorite. 

Since I wrote the above paragraph, we ate the hamburgers and they were delicious.  We also had yummy sweet potato fries.  Now we are just talking around the table.  Miriam is wearing a t-shirt with a giant hispster ‘stache on the front that she sewed on herself.  Brian just said he remembers when she first saw Miriam.  She was very cute—very purple, but very cute.  Jon said that if he could get her anything in the world, he would give her…uh… “this sesame seed”—picking a seed off his hamburger bun.  Then we had to tell the story of when Miriam was little, she picked a sesame seed off of her hamburger bun, handed it to someone and said sweetly, “Here.  Now you can buy a hamburger.” 

Brian said that when she little and walking the doctor said she was too short to be walking. 

Thomas gave Miriam bamboo for a pot she got today.  Katrina gave her fingernail polish, Preston got her a Zelda t-shirt which made her laugh.  She said she’s now officially a nerd. 

If we could give Miriam anything in the world we would give her:

Brian:  Four years of college paid and a shopping trip to New York

Katrina:  Every Zelda product ever made.

Matt:  a ten-use negative twenty pound card

Thomas:  Her own beach

Me:  Life long joy and happiness

Preston:  A miniature Link that would run around and play.

Now we’re eating the cake and ice cream.  Happy Birthday, Miriam