Stahlke Adoption

Washington's Birthday

February 22 is an important day in our family because it's my mother's birthday.  She told me recently that when I was young (under age 11), the USA celebrated Lincoln and Washington's birthdays separately, not together as we do now for Presidents' Day.  That meant that my father always had a holiday on my mother's birthday!  They would get the children settled at school and then go out for a lovely brunch somewhere, often in downtown Houston.  I had no idea until more than 40 years later that my parents celebrated this tradition.  Makes me smile!

posted by Stahlkes @ 6:37 PM