Today is the birthday of my nephew Aaron. He lives on the eastern side of the country and so in order to get it to him today, I had to mail him a pie two days ago. And since I have not figured out how to mail a fruit pie (and likely won’t before this project is over) I chose to mail him a chocolate chip cookie pie… much like the pie I sent to my cousin Darren a few weeks ago. It is more or less a big cookie… but hopefully one of the best cookies that he has ever had.
My husband and I moved away from the east coast shortly after Aaron was born and we did not get to spend much time with him as he was growing up. His Mom, Amanda, did send us many pictures so that we could see how he’d grown, etc. The photo above, was one of those pictures taken at school, and it was tucked up in with other photos in our hallway for many years.
Last year Aaron married Emily. Unfortunately, we could not make it to the east coast for the wedding but we saw many of the beautiful photos of the wedding and the new couple taken by Aaron’s brother (and photographer) Christopher… none of which I can get my hands on at this moment! Luckily, Amanda sent us a photo of the newlyweds, taken with her last summer. You can see that cute little Aaron has become quite a handsome man.
Aaron, we send you our best wishes for a very happy birthday… and wish you a wonderful year to come!
Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.
— Gail Lumet Buckley
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