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TODAY IS KAREN'S BDAY!

Karen is a huge birthday person. Probably the biggest i know. For several years, like 5, she's had birthday weeks, she likes her birthday so much. This year is the first time in a long time she hasn't planned a birthday week... only 4 days. And she is distraught she has to work on her bday. But besides the extreme decrease in celebrations, i think she's going to have a great 4-day birthday.

i sort-of decided for her this was her year to try new places and things. this evolved from the fact she's not a huge cooker. she had 3 recipes. while we were at borders picking up some awesome sales dad & i picked out two cookbooks for her. a 4-ingredient one and a 5-ingredient one. dad also picked a few recipes out where we thought she could start. i made one recipe which she insisted she would not like. later that week i got a text how much she liked it. she called me sunday and was so proud of herself because she bought ingredients for 4 different recipes. i'm proud too. she made one sunday night and even said it was "FUN!"

she's off to a GREAT start!

At her actual bday celebration last year

so happy birthday to karen and happy thursday to everyone else...

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