When Dancing Was Sin
We are in the midst of birthday season. In May we celebrate lots of family birthdays! We had birthdays on the 3 rd , 4 th , 5 th , 6 th , 7 th , 10 th , and one to come on the 15 th . It used to be we’d eat birthday cake for days. When the children were still home we tried to get each one of them their own cake. This year, I didn’t get any birthday cake. We only bought a cake for our son and he took it home with him. It was chocolate too. Oh well, I don’t need cake. Near the end of these birthdays are two other birthdays that I always remember. One is my Tante Bitta’s oldest daughter's birthday. She was my childhood playmate. She was the one who came faithfully every day to visit me when I spent weeks in the hospital in the seventh grade. I had rheumatic fever. Every day, Grace would walk from school to the Norwegian Lutheran Medical Center. She would keep me company for the afternoon. After we sh...