Anna Burgess Yang
Quentin turned 10 years old this week.
His birthday was five days after our state shut down in 2020 due to Covid-19. We had plans to go to a hotel with a waterpark and had to cancel. Last year wasn’t that exciting either. A March birthday means we couldn’t reliably plan to have an outdoor gathering. Vaccines had only just started their mass distribution. So two of his 10 birthdays have been a bummer.
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My 4th grader’s son had a school fundraiser with a local bakery. We could order mini bundt cakes, to be picked up on February 10th. Being so close to Valentine’s Day, we ordered five cakes for the five people in our family.
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It’s 5:32 a.m. on my birthday. A normal wakeup time for me, to be sure, but for once I would have preferred to sleep in a bit. Instead, I found my mind busy, not only with thoughts over where I was at this time last year but also thinking about years to come.
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Researcher Brené Brown posted on her social media recently: “Hit me with some situations that left you feeling bittersweet.”
The days leading up to Autumn’s birthday are always bittersweet for me.
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When my kids were young, I used to plan elaborate themed birthday parties. They really couldn’t appreciate the work that I put in, but they always enjoyed having friends over and lots of food. As they got older, they opted to substitute a party for a trip to a hotel with an indoor waterpark. And that was the case last year – in March of 2020 – when Quentin was turning 8 years old.
A mere few days before his birthday, everything shut down due to the pandemic.
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Musings Out Loud 