5 October
Today M is a teenager!
She went into the day with little to no expectations, so she said the night before. Why? She is in a different country from her friends, friends she has spent her birthdays with for the past 7 years. Birthdays spent riding bikes, hunting for penguin eggs (Easter eggs), exploring creeks, excavating dinosaur bones, making mud pies, playing Wii, visiting a farm, oh the list goes on for the creative things she enjoys doing. How could today be special?
She was anxious to open anything, so I had her open the gift that would be the worst first, clothes. Yep, not happy. The rest of the day brightened up with a horse lesson, letters, scavenger hunts inside the house and throughout the village side, presents here and there, and phone calls from her friends.
After school was finished for the day we headed to the aquarium followed by a walk along the Mediterranean Sea and ending with a Swiss meal of Fondue and Raclette, not too bad for an American girl turning 13.
Overall she let us know it had been a good birthday. A new friend gave her a fun gift today, Sunday, after church. (Thank you to all who sent texts, cards, and gifts.)
[Side note not related to M nor her grandparents but related to mail in general, if anyone sends us a package, the delivery organization will ask how much the contents are worth…you should say $0. If you give a $ amount we will have to pay France that same $ amount in Euros to claim the package.]
Lees in France 