Dear Ian,
On your birthday and every day, I am thankful for you. Your gentle nature and beautiful smile are a blessing to our family. You bring a peaceful spirit to our home. You astound me with how you keep such a nice and neat room as a teenager. I admire how disciplined you are with your healthy habits. I'm grateful for your patience and that you are a peacemaker. I appreciate your faithful help in the music ministry alongside your brother, even when it is sometimes a challenge.
This is your second to last birthday at home. I don't like to think about that too much! For your birthday activity this year, you wanted to wait until Owen and Isabel arrived from the States for Christmas break in order to ride go-karts together. So it was a somewhat quiet day, one where you and Silas and Alec did some creating with Legos around the already set up Christmas tree.
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But you were also keen to try a new Venezuelan restaurant that was recommended to us, so we headed there for your birthday lunch. You greatly enjoy a good cheese-filled “tequeño” so of course we made sure to have plenty of those for starters!
Your choice of meal was a giant “patacón” sandwich with flattened fried plantain as the “bread.” Dad’s was the traditional “pabellón” meal with black beans, rice, fried plantains, pulled beef. Silas, por supuesto, ate his favorite “arepas” while Alec and I enjoyed our own selections. No one went hungry on your birthday!
Now let's talk about dessert, which we did NOT eat at the Venezeulan restaurant. Ian, you stand out in our family as the lone eschewer of chocolate. Note that I did not write "CHEWer" but "ESCHEWer" which means "a person who deliberately abstains from or avoids something they dislike or consider harmful." We do not understand it, but we respect it. So your birthday "cake" was actually slices of cheesecake from the Silvestre restaurant. And it was REALLY good!
Happy 17th Birthday, Ian David Garcia! We are so glad that God gave us the privilege of being your parents and doing life with you. We pray you will continue to pursue Jesus wholeheartedly and allow Him to lead you. "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight." (Pr. 3:5-6)
Mom
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