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18 candles

By Anne • July 15, 2016 • Life

18 years. The kid, my baby, she of the wide grin and the long(ish) animated tales, is 18 years today. Her morning began much like the others with a kiss and a wave out the door, and today at least, raspberries for breakfast. Don’t we all need a hit of berry pink to start the daily grind?  Birthdays demand extra colour flourishes around these parts.

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18 candles is a tight fit. Never one to shy away from excess, this mother of a newly minted adult is almost ready with the match.

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One candle for a little white dog who will wait at the door.

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Two for wake-up calls and evening turn-down service.

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Three for an extra sock because the dryer always eats one.

Four for family four dinners sharing stories of the silliest or smartest person encountered that day.

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Five for counting the seconds before you tell a secret*

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Six for snacks and green stuff on toast and red lollipops.

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Seven for luck. Let’s say we make our own.

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Nine for chin-ups and warm boots.

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Ten for counting the seconds before you turn up the volume.

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Eleven for funny. Find it in the mud too.

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Twelve for drawing big circles when it doesn’t matter and small ones when it does.

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Thirteen for tipping your hat to the long line that came before you.

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Fourteen for campfires and loon calls and s’mores and no cell service.

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Fifteen for waiting until the last whistle before you stop. And still we rally.

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Sixteen for the song of sisters.** May you always know the words by heart

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Seventeen for spotting the space just for you. It’s there. I know it.

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Eighteen for Mom and Dad hugs for a lifetime of booboos and bonanza breakthroughs.

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At her graduation* last month, an epic blunder was made. I forgot to write WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU in the sky.DSC_6670

    Photo credits:

   *Jane Langford

**photosbycaileigh.com

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