Before anything else — today is yours. Scroll down when you're ready; there are a few candles that need lighting first.
Tap each candle to light it. Make a wish on the last one — you know how this works.
Another year down, and somehow you keep getting more you — which, if you ask me, is the only kind of growing up worth doing.
I hope today is soft where you need it soft, loud where you want it loud, and full of exactly the kind of attention you deserve but rarely ask for. You give people so much of your time and care — today, let it come back to you.
Whatever this year brings, I'm glad to be someone who gets to watch it happen. Happy birthday. I mean every word of this.