All Those Candles

 

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Tomorrow grandson Aaron turns eighteen, so the family party was today.

Eighteen candles - it had to be.  I had a box of nicer candles in my hands at the grocery, but there were only sixteen candles in that box so I put those candles back.

I only have two grandchildren, so the other gets a small un-birthday gift, a tradition that probably started on Aaron's first birthday.  And, if my actual gift isn't wrapped, there is something small for the birthday person to actually unwrap.  Birthday traditions according to me.

Since he has that September birthday, Aaron red-shirted his kindergarten year.  Now this birthday makes his start of his senior high school  year official.