Heee,heee,sounds like a grade school paper,what I did on my weekend! I had fun.  It might had been the kiddies three birthdays but I got much more out of it!   I got to watch my daughter produce the most wonderful birthday cards and one shower card that was so cute for a friends party.  I got entertained by the youngest birthday boy who got a electronic drum set!  Haaa,haaa...try getting a full meal ready with that going on in the next room!!! But they were having so much fun!  The laughter was so catching!!!  The faces so happy!   I got to hear of Barcelona and Brussels and so many places as we hadn't seen our youngest since he returned from his travels.  Angela knows how I love to "travel" through my kiddies!! It was so neat to hear what interested him and what they went to go see, what their take was on what to return to see more of!!  I heard of the new school my daughter is attending and the new job my daughter in law finds herself doing!! So much life! So much interest in each other. It is a true gift to me to see my children care and offer sugestions and be truely loving to each other. That means the world to me. It is special to watch and hear the voices. They travel to my heart,knowing that they will always have each other.  A wonderful gift that I hope each Mother gets to see because it is a true and pure thing that brings tears because it is an intense feeling.  They are a bond in it's self,each in their own life and each travelling through the best way they know how but the shoulders of all their brothers and sisters are there if needed.  To some times cry on,to rejoice together, to be thoughtful and clever and cheeky. It is great to see them all joined in as one and so individual. Birthdays always take me back to the welcoming day. The day you give your child the world. To cope with it best they can,to be a good person of the world and to expect that there be dues paid. Broken hearts along the way,hearts filled with joy,hearts that think they can't go on.  But with your family you know you will be there for your kids. You know you will try to give them a sense of them selves and a gratitude for others that come and go in your life.  Being there for them as they turn into adults is the biggest job in this world. The tougest job in this world!!! And I think that Mom's give it their all and try to do the best. And this...weekends with them is the reward. The pay off for all those sleepless nights. Well when they are babies yes but the first trip out driving,the first date,the first party...those sleepless nights age you more!! Believe me they do!!  The pay off for behaving yourself as children see way more than you think they do!!!  The gift for thinking...at least sometimes... before you say what you think!! Ohhh,that's a tough one,for me anyway LOL!!!  Anyway,point of me going on is that the payoff for motherhood just gets better as you go along! Well worth the never ending effort!!!