Anna turned 13 on Dec 7, and Lucy turned 1 on Dec 13. It's been a poignant reminder of how my oldest and youngest daughters are twelve years apart, and how I have a teenager and a baby at the same time! December is busy with our two birthdays, but I'll always be grateful that Anna was born three weeks early, and Lucy two so that their birthdays aren't right on top of Christmas. We're glad Anna got better to celebrate her birthday. She got a horrible case of strep. I don't know if she had the flu too, but she could barely lift her head from her pillow for eight days, and she missed six days of school and several violin rehearsals, lessons, and performances that all fell during that week. She had missed so much school that we didn't get to skip it on her birthday to go shopping with her mom and Grandma Thompson. We'll go another time. I'm glad she was there because her friends decorated her locker and sang to her during lunch, and she came home very pleased. Grandma and Grandpa Dastrup drove up to Ogden to have a fun birthday dinner with us. Anna decided to cut out sweets for a year, so she didn't want a birthday cake. We think it was brave to make this decision the day before General Conference (and homemade cinnamon rolls). Many people, if they made this commitment at all, would have waited until they had gorged themselves on cinnamon rolls to begin their goal. She hasn't gone off sugar completely. She has jam on her PB&J sandwiches, fruit, and syrup, so she requested french toast made with homemade challah and buttermilk syrup, bottled peaches, and hash browns. Sarah took a permanent marker and wrote "to and frum" on all of her presents. The last picture is of her teaching Grandma and Grandpa Dastrup how to do Together Forever, which is how Thompsons end their family home evenings.
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