Center Sister celebrated her Golden Birthday over the weekend– she turned thirteen on the thirteenth and officially became a teenager.
We hosted a simple outdoor movie night (in the garage, due to intermitent rain showers) and a few of her pals stayed the night. After social distancing for so long it was a blessing to celebrate together. I mused to my own mom that the kids’ birthday parties are organically becoming less complicated and requiring very little of me– I suppose an allegory for parenting, in general.
Firstborn lovingly baked her coffee-flavored cupcakes (with coffee-flavored frosting, decaf naturally); crafting birthday desserts for each other has become a bit of a tradition for these best-friend-sisters.
a few of her favorite things 
featuring: The Princess Bride 
afterparty sleepover trying out her new hoverboard 
grabbing takeout for lunch the next day and her free birthday dutch she also celebrated at her dance studio
We are so grateful to be parents to this girl who’s as good as gold, and are tremendously proud of the shining young woman she’s becoming.
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