Happy Birthday to Kelly!It feels strange to live so far away from the girls on their birthdays. I'm not sure why since they had all left the family home--even the hometown--long before we moved to Ohio.
Birthdays seem a little more nostalgic these days. I think a cancer diagnosis in the family changes the way you think about time. Years past and thoughts of those in the future--or not--become more precious.
Memories of Kelly's birthday comes with those smells of summer--sunscreen, bug spray, chlorine and food on the grill. So I spent today remembering making birthday cakes shaped like turtles, buying new bikes, cook outs in the backyard with family and friends, scavenger hunts, pinatas and swimming pools.
Happy Birthday, little girl!
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