{"id":2000,"date":"2013-06-15T07:38:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T06:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2013-06-15T07:38:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T06:38:28","slug":"what-do-you-do-when-you-turn-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2013\/06\/15\/what-do-you-do-when-you-turn-60\/","title":{"rendered":"What do YOU do when you turn 60??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so this email is 2 weeks late, but I just got the photos off Rose-Marie&#8217;s camera yesterday. \u00a0(o;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/blog-RM-bday-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2002\" alt=\"blog RM bday (5)\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/blog-RM-bday-5.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/blog-RM-bday-5.jpg 448w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/blog-RM-bday-5-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rose-Marie gave her own birthday party!\u00a0 She invited a whole slew of friends for a big noon meal, complete with a delicious cream filled\u00a0mango\u00a0cake!\u00a0 Each piece of cake had a little Swedish flag on it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/blog-RM-bday-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2001\" alt=\"blog RM bday (4)\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/blog-RM-bday-4.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/blog-RM-bday-4.jpg 448w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/blog-RM-bday-4-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/blog-for-real-RM-bday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2004\" alt=\"blog for real RM bday\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/blog-for-real-RM-bday.jpg\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/blog-for-real-RM-bday.jpg 336w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/blog-for-real-RM-bday-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, we had to go sing the Swedish birthday song to her at daybreak, flowers in hand.\u00a0 Normally we should wake her up with the song, but we were a little late and she was up and doing email on her balcony veranda when we arrived to sing to her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/blog-RM-bday-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2005\" alt=\"blog RM bday (1)\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/blog-RM-bday-1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/blog-RM-bday-1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/blog-RM-bday-1-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She also celebrated by inviting the WHOLE hospital staff and MORE to a coffee break at her house at 10 a.m.\u00a0 What a sweet lady with a great BIG heart!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/blog-RM-bday-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2006\" alt=\"blog RM bday (3)\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/blog-RM-bday-3.jpg\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/blog-RM-bday-3.jpg 448w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2013\/06\/blog-RM-bday-3-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She celebrated by giving and laughing and giving and enjoying friends and giving some more!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=2000&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so this email is 2 weeks late, but I just got the photos off Rose-Marie&#8217;s camera yesterday. \u00a0(o; 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