I don’t recall many of the birthdays that were given in my honor. I know from picture that mom put a great deal of thought into each birthday celebration. There was always a ton of kids at each one. She would make a special cake and we would play games.
I remember one year we played a game called Ghost. It involved a flour mold, a button, and a
knife. Each player would cut off sides
of the mold where the button laid on top.
The object was to keep the button on top of the mold and whoever made
the button spill had to retrieve it with his or her teeth. Reshape and replay until many of us had a
turn fishing the button out and getting covered in flour which gave each of us
a ghost like appearance.
I remember one time there was a bunch of string webbed
throughout the room. Mom gave each girl
an end and we each needed to weave in and out to retrieve whatever was on the
other end (they were bracelets).
