Happy Birthday

Happy birthday, Jen!

I would have gotten you a latte and a croissant, for sure
and a card addresssed to "squeak cheeks" with some inside joke
and maybe stickers, a picture of Max, something you collect
Good cheer
Chisme
Dinners out
a new favorite book
Something collected from travels
a tiny tiny painting by J.R. Williams or Bwana Spoons or Jeff Roysden
Something in Spanish

Instead, it will be waterfalls and blue glass rocks and twinkly hair clips left hidden somewhere
some flowers, real and surreal (folded from Mexican paper)
a song you sing ("Down in the River" or "I Will Survive" or the theme from "Fresh Prince of Bel Air")
and, as always, a story about you for Max and Genevieve

I love you!