What do you do to celebrate your Mom's 70th birthday when you are in the middle of a pandemic and your siblings are spread across 3 states and 1 province? A zoom party of course.
First, we each shared a couple memories of my mom. Lots of the memories were about how she spent so much time sewing for us, and also of her coming to our life events (babies, baptisms, surgeries, etc).
Then since she is 7 decades old and there are 7 kids, we each took a decade and gave her a gift to represent each decade. I had the 1990s so I gave her a framed drawing of the Savior with the woman at the well which represented her time in the 90s as a young women's president, seminary teacher, and mother of 7 kids with 2 weddings and 2 grandkids, and all that she did to teach all of us to love the Savior and to be covenant keeping women.
All of my siblings gifts were so thoughtful as they represented her being born in Utah, moved to California, went to BYU, got married in the Oakland California Temple, taught at BYU-Idaho, and then served a mission at the Idaho Falls Temple Visitor Center.
My parents let Julie come over if she would wear a mask so she could hand them each gift. (Thanks to Julie for wrapping them and being the gift coordinator as we all mailed things to her).
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