Happy Birthday Dear David on May 9!

Happy Birthday Dear David!
David with Beth, Debi and Carol

David was born on a Friday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. the seventh child and the second son of a Methodist Pastor and his wife. This was at a time when pastors salaries were very low even though ordination required 3 years of Post Graduate Seminary education.

But David was planned and welcomed as enthusiastically as if he was an only child. We brought him home from the hospital on Mother's Day over 40 years ago and I am still proud to be his mother.
David was a bright and happy boy who took seriously the fact that in the Bible "seven" is the number of perfection as well as completion.

As a boy, David preferred peanut butter sandwiches to vegetables and tried to live on them. This fact caused his Daddy to consult with a doctor friend. The doctor said he had heard of children who tried to survive on worse and David would grow out of it.

So he continued to push his veggies around on his plate and drop as many as possible on the floor thinking his mother would not notice.

His sisters like to tease him at all family gatherings to this day that David never made his own peanut butter sanwiches. They report he enlisted one or another of his indulgent siblings to do it for him. As Carol said, "He was just so cute."

So David never needed "self esteem" lessons nor "diversity" training. He played the guitar and drum in the RSV (Revised Standard Version) Youth Group at church, so he was popular with his classmates and especially the girls as a teenager.
David, a hard working business man and and lay leader in his church.

David is married to his lovely childhood sweetheart and the proud father of three beautiful daughters and now a son-in'law. (in small icture below.)