Joyce's Birthday

Joyce is Ruthie’s oldest sister. She has never had a birthday celebrated. All throughout Wednesday every time I saw her I told her happy birthday and hugged her. Rebecca asked her what she wanted to do for her birthday and she said she wanted to go to a cultural dance show. Rebecca let her bring another girl from the house and Catherine from Canada joined us, too. When we were purchasing necklaces from Mary and Molly I asked Rebecca if I could let her pick out a necklace and a bracelet for her birthday. She picked hot pink! My favorite!

The dance event was outside in a small stadium type place. It was very impressive. Joyce did not even want to go through the food buffet line because she did not want to miss any of the show. Her eyes were glued to the performance. She was soaking it all in.  Seeing her take it all in was amazing. I think I watched her face more than I watched the show. She was so happy.

Rebecca and I told the people at the show that it was her birthday so they made a special announcement and sang everyone there happy birthday to her. She was very shy but I think she really enjoyed that.