Birthdays with a Side of Hodgepodge

It's Tuesday, so you know what that means, right?

It's my baby girl's birthday!

Oh, and I have to post the Hodgepodge questions too, but more importantly...

It's my baby girl's birthday!

She told me last week that her students are very excited about her big day, so I'm hoping lots of lovely minutes fill the hours today. I sent a big box full of goodies, which she got last week, and I have to smile because she didn't open a single present. Four whole complete entire days have passed, and still they are unopened. Being the disciplined person she is, she placed them neatly in front of her coffee table to be opened today, her official birthday.

My sister lives near my daughter2, and has a special dinner planned. Thank heaven for sisters who cook and plan and love on daughters living far from home on their birthday.

This girl makes the world a brighter place, and I am so lucky to be her momma.  
Happy Birthday Daughter2...I love you to the moon and back!

Be sure to grab this week's Hodgepodge questions before you go...

1. What's the best thing about growing older?

2. When did you first feel like a grown up?

3. Chocolate cake with white icing or white cake with chocolate icing?

4. What's the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?

5.  What's something you learned from your grandparents?

6. Wednesday marks a sad day in the history of planet earth-9/11...what's something you do (or can do) to bring peace to your little corner of the world?

7.  Share a favorite quote, scripture, or song containing the word peace.  

8.  Insert your own random thought here.