Happy 19th Birthday Meg!

It wasn't the birthday celebration that she had planned, but Meg still enjoyed her day with online shopping, Super Mario on the wii, a Disney puzzle and one of her favorite movies - The Princess and the Frog.  We enjoyed sharing all of these activities with her.  Doug made steaks for dinner and Cameron helped with the birthday cake.  Her IU friends set up a birthday FaceTime call tonight and she also spent time chatting with Jackie and Nick.  She was surprised by all of the texts and messages that she received on social media.  In the end she said that the only part that really felt out of place was the fact that Brett wasn't here to celebrate with us.  She did open his gift, however, which included a beautiful new rosary.  She also received a new Bible from Godmother Jeannette and some birthday money from Grandpa Heinisch.  She planned on opening the rest of her gifts later once the Coronavirus threat had passed.  We promised her a bigger celebration then.

Meg talked today about other memorable birthdays.  Some were unique, such as the celebration on her 17th birthday in Raleigh during Interterm or the one just last year with her friends on her senior trip in Chicago.  She also reminisced about her eighth birthday when she was sick with the flu or the time on her tenth birthday when she was able to get Cosmoeven though I was sick with pleurisy.  The one I remembered best was one that she could not recall, her acutal birth day.  That day too did not go according to plans with an emergency c-section, but we weathered that storm as well and to bought home a beautiful baby girl that has added so much love and joy to our family over the past nineteen years.  I know that this day will soon be a memory as well and what a story she will have to share about the time she was quarantined on her nineteenth birthday.