The birthday party that lasted a week.

The Kingdon Family likes to celebrate Big Events in family members’ lives with Big Events.  Marie’s grandmother, Marie Rauh Kingdon, loved to entertain:  the more the merrier.  Christmas Eve parties in her home included her three sons, their families, and their families’ families!  Her father, Henry Rauh Kingdon, began the tradition of Family Reunions, bringing together family and friends from all over the country.  Family Reunions and Big Birthday celebrations usually lasted for days.

As Marie, born on April 25, 1937, was contemplating “What to Do” to commemorate The Big Day in 2007, she decided she would like to go back to the mid-Michigan area to spend time with dear friends from the almost forty years she lived there.  And, since she wanted to see so many different people, it seemed only reasonable that there should be more than one event on the schedule.  How about two?  Or three?  Or FIVE???

After all, it’s hard enough to look in the mirror these days and try to figure out who is looking back...and it’s quite obvious to her that she’s far TOO YOUNG to be (gasp!) The Big Seven-O.  So...do it up right, see lots of wonderful people, drink lots of glasses of bubbly items, and schedule A BIRTHDAY PARTY THAT LASTS A WEEK!!!