Today is Pan’s 9th Birthday, it’s also my mom’s 60th birthday.  She tells me I gave her the best birthday present 9 years ago.  She may be right.

Happy Birthday – I’m sorry this is a big week for Mommy’s work and she has to work so late.  I’m sorry that things aren’t exactly the way you want them…. but someday you’ll understand that we are just doing the best we can with what we have.

And I love that you were willing to try something new for your birthday, especially since you aren’t a big fan of birthday cake – but I wish you would have known that you don’t like coconut before I made the coconut cream pie (that’s okay – Daddy liked it!), but now we know, and we’ll come up with something else.  (I’m not sure what he was thinking…)

I hope you love your airplane ride – I’m so excited for you!

Hope you have an awesome day!