Fresh today · Wednesday, 8 July

New Wishes

A handful of wishes pulled from the cabinet this morning. Pick one up — copy, save it to your pinboard, or send it on.

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Nine years of you, and the family still can't keep up with your reading list.

Wishing you a birthday with at least one inside joke only your friends understand.

Nine: the age where you start having a favorite teacher and a least favorite subject.

Happy birthday to a girl whose questions are getting harder to answer — keep asking.

May your ninth year be full of friendships that survive the playground politics.

Nine candles, one excellent human — keep going exactly the way you're going.

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Happy 9th — the age where you read past bedtime and pretend you don't.

May this year bring you a book that ruins you in the best way.

Nine years old and already smarter than the adults who try to talk down to you.

Wishing you a birthday cake exactly the flavor you asked for, no negotiations.

Happy 9th to the girl whose handwriting is starting to look like an actual signature.

May year ten begin with a friend who picks you first without thinking.

Nine: old enough to roll your eyes, young enough to apologize five minutes later.

Wishing you a year of sleepovers that go too late and breakfasts that go too long.

Happy birthday to a girl who's been the best part of every family photo so far.

May your ninth year be the one where you find something you're secretly great at.

Nine years of being you — the family has gotten very good at quoting you.

Wishing you a birthday surrounded by exactly the people who get your jokes.

Happy 9th — the year you start arguing your case like a tiny, well-read lawyer.

May this year give you a song you'll still know every word of when you're thirty.

Nine: the age of secret notes, complicated friendships, and books with dragons in them.

Wishing you a year of new skills — chess, cartwheels, sarcasm, whatever fits.

Happy 9th to a girl who's somehow always the funniest person in the conversation.

May your birthday wish be the one you secretly tell only your best friend.