Today was my birthday. yay. Except it wasn’t a yay. Sure my friends at school telling me happy birthday and stuff was okay but…. Ya know. My mom has cancer and is really tired from chemo. My dad and mom don’t live together and are married to different people. My dad is sick. He sang me happy birthday over FaceTime today. My mom slept all day. I didn’t have a cake and while I am grateful for the two presents I got I am just sad. So, tonight I got out this new candle that I just bought recently and it kinda smells like cake. I put some pictures of my parents, friends, family and i in front of me. I lit the candle and I sang happy birthday to myself and imagined that all the people in the pictures were singing with me. Then I blew it out. It smelled just like a cake. That was the best part of my day.