Fourteen

I can't quite believe that it is almost a whole year since we were preparing for this. Jewish boys become Bar Mitzvah at the age of thirteen. Last week the youngest son celebrated his fourteenth birthday. It seems to be, ahem, a difficult age. My son wants to be independent, but we still want to know where he's going and when he's coming back. He doesn't want to go to bed at night when I tell him, even though he has school the next day. And he thinks it's okay and entirely reasonable to play on his computer all day. I don't. Can you sense that it's all fun and games in our house at the moment?

Having said that, he might be obsessed with his laptop, but when I do manage to peel him off it, he's still the artistic, creative, bookworm that we love! Once again books had to feature on his birthday card, though really you'll find him with a Kindle in his hands these days. His phone, laptop and headphones are there too, along with some pens and a pencil. He still loves to draw. New additions this year are his skinny jeans and hair gel. He gets his hair cut more often than anyone else in the family, and then spends ages styling it in front of the mirror. Oops! I'm giving all his secrets away...

Finally, I added a little short-legged dachshund, currently his favourite breed of dog, to the card. Yes, he still desperately wants a dog. No, we didn't get one.

Gadi, you make me crazy these days, but I'm also quite proud of the creative, smart and supercool kid that you are. You just need to remember you have those amazing abilities and use them occasionally!

* If you would like to see some of his previous birthday cards, please click here, here, and here.

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