Zoe turned 13 yesterday, and I can’t think of a better photo for my rule-following, book-loving kid than this one. (She had indeed been saving this book for around her birthday; she crawled into our bed the night before the big day and said, “Now I can read this.”)

We’ve all been so focused on her bat mitzvah (less than one week away now!) that her birthday itself felt a bit anti-climatic. Still we made it fun by doing something very Zoe: We went to Barnes & Nobel, where she browsed for a while before picking out five books, and then went to a San Mateo restaurant where she had one of her favorite things in the world (strawberry rhubarb pie). Later we had dinner in the neighborhood with Sandy and Cas, who flew in that evening, and she blew out candles on a cake that her good friend bought and surprised her with. Not a bad way to usher in her teen years!

-M

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