How are you today, Soren? I hope school has let out by now. Not too much has happened today, so I can recount it fairly quickly. Mom made me pancakes with strawberry slices for breakfast. I got a new iPad (since my old one is quite old, and Apple is planning that obsolescence), a west coast sticker, a pen, a spoon and knife with peanut butter jokes engraved, and a small cherry blossom-shaped rose quartz. More is yet to come because of mailing waits. Grandma got me a gift card and a necklace with my portrait of you on it from 2022.
She called and told me she made it, and that it’s to take to college. It will likely live hung on the wall or somewhere similar, like a portrait.
I wonder if Mom thinks about me on this day. I know you do if you read these, but if you do not, who knows. I only know that I think of you both on your birthdays. We’re going to have pizza for dinner. I had strawberry cake for lunch. It’s alright. I like the rituals of birthdays but Mom wants to abandon them since I am older. I do not like being older. My friends have made me feel better than the presents and everything. I hope you see your friends over the summer. As often as possible. Mom and Aaron are going to Country Fair this year, and I will watch the cats. Perhaps you can convince Mom to take you? Many of the people there know Aaron. You might find luck asking around for him (his last name is Long) when Mom isn’t looking. Aaron’s friend Cada Johnson will also be selling her art there. You can ask her anything you like. Her art looks like this, and she was by the creek last year.
With love,
Alice