HAPPY BIRTHDAY NUM NUM

We are loving you across the miles Num Num and want to all wish you a very, very, very, happy birthday!!! Perhaps I might should clarify who "Num Num" is. She is our dear mom and Grandma in the great Northwest. . . i.e. NW Mom :)

Num Num seems like a peculiar name for a grandmother, some might say. How did she get THAT name?? Well, our one and only Ellie. . . the infamous FIRST grandchild. . . would NOT cooperate and call her by the name we had all picked. We of course had chosen something more common, such as "gramsie" or "grammie" (I actually have a TERRIBLE memory and cannot remember the original name!!) Anyway, "Num Num" was what the one year old insisted on, and "Num Num" is the name that stuck!!

I asked the kids tonight what they LOVED about Num Num and here are their answers:

~Ellie loves that she gives lots of hugs.

~Drew loves that she watches baseball games with him and gives him lots of hugs and kisses.

~Abby loves that she gives us treats, is very kind, loving, AND sweet, and that she cares about us.

~Toby loves that she pushed him on the swing when we were at her house.

~Whit loves that she gave her "my bear pillow" (Num Num cross-stitched BEAUTIFUL pillow cases for each of the kids that they all LOVE!!)

Thank you for being such a wonderful mother and grandmother to my children! I love that you know me so well. I am thrilled about the pewter dish-set you got me. . . and can't wait to get up to your neck of the woods to use it. I truly am grateful that the Lord sovereignly ordained that we would have so much in common. . . we both fear and love the Lord, are married to pastors, are from the South, love the country, adore thrift shopping & old quilts, and tend to be "junk collectors." :) There is much more I could say, but those are a few things that are especially meaningful to me! Thanks for loving me so well!

We ALL love you Num Num and are praising the Lord

for your life today!!

"But we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will give thanks to you forever; from generation to generation we will recount your praise.

Psalm 79:13