Adam's great aunt Lois was turning 89 so we went up to her house and had dinner to celebrate (and also celebrate Michelle's birthday which was the day before). Lois is such a good woman and it was fun to talk to her. She was born in 1911 and the world was pretty different back then. I asked what she thinks the biggest change in society (or biggest invention) was. Her answer? The television. I would've said the computer, but her birthday, her game. I asked her questions about growing up and she told me about graduating high school and going to business school (pretty forward for her time) where a company came in looking for secretaries and hired her out so she never finished. She told me about some of her tasks as a secretary (manning the switchboard, typing on a typewriter, something to do with some gizmo that I had never even heard of... you know, stuff like that). It's crazy to think how much the world has changed in just one persons lifetime. More has probably changed in these last hundred years then any hundred before it and can you imagine being one of the lucky ones like Lois who got to pull up a chair and watch? Makes me wonder what will happen in my lifetime?
(only five more years till hover-boards and power laced shoes)
This time the cake was a giant flower with chocolate (dyed yellow) petals. It was so good!
Happy birthday Michelle and Lois!!
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