Her husband, E, put together a GREAT surprise birthday scavenger hunt and party for her on Saturday, but this is my little way of saying Happy! Happy! and sharing the Top 5 Things I Love About K!
# 5 - K loves her work. She is a Speech Language Pathologist at Ozark Public Schools. (I do LOVE it when FB can help me with things like job titles!) Regardless of her title, it is her love for her work and for the kids she works with that most impresses me. She loves kids and offering them fun, therapeutic ways to grow in their speech patterns and communication skills. I would be the first person to tell you that I don't know everything that a Speech Language Pathologist does, but I know from the stories that K shares and watching her as she loves on children, that she does it well and with great love for both the tools of her trade and the children. She is constantly "ON" as she listens to children and teaches them even in the day to day moments of simply playing together. But she does it so naturally and lovingly that the children aren't even aware that they've been taught. But they have been for K knows well the teachable moments.
# 4 - K's voice. It has a somewhat childlike timbre to it, but I believe God gave her this voice as one small way of equipping her for her work with children. She has one of those gentle voices that children naturally respond very well to...they instinctively know that she can be trusted.
# 3 - K loves sushi. I love sushi. What is not to love about that?
# 2 - K loves sparkles! I gotta say I love a girl who loves sparkles and ain't ashamed to say it! She even likes sparkles on her art, regardless of whether E likes sparkles on art, too, or not! You go, K!
# 1 - K loves people. She especially loves family and has a very open heart. One relationship that she very much treasures is the one she has with her grandfather, whose birthday is one day after K's. They have gone to lunch together for their birthdays for like the last 50+ years or something close to that, and Saturday was no different. How cute are these two together?!
So now for the Top 5 Things We Would Give K if Time, Money and Resources Were No Object...
# 5 - More time. K is a mother of this very energetic 2 year old K-man who loves to run!
# 4 - A room in her house filled with all of the best therapy equipment and games so that her patients could come to her house and save her some of that much needed time traveling to and from her appointments. K is one busy lady!
# 3 - Her very own sushi chef that could come to her house and make up fresh sushi as often as she wanted and serve it to her on their wonderful porch, surrounded by nothing by green grass and fresh air. I wonder if Michael makes house calls...hmmm...????
# 2 - An even bigger cake with more candles to share with her cousins. How sweet are these 3 little pics of the glow...
And the # 1 Thing We Would Give K if Time, Money and Resources Were No Object...
# 1 - Tickets to every country music concert at the Verizon Amphitheater in St. Louis so that she could indulge her love for country music and we could get to see her and E and the K-man way more often!!
Happy! Happy! K! We hope your birthday has been and continues to be wonderful and that this year is filled with even more love and blessings! We love you!!!
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