Saturday, November 8, 2025

Your Little Dot - a 20th Birthday Reflection

Sometimes when I want to feel rich, I open the Find My Friends app.

I feel incredibly rich when I see the little dots that light up and show me where all of my beloved family members are. I am so lucky to have so many little dots filling up the map.

This weekend, your 20th birthday, your siblings were flung across three different states. I zoomed out so I could see us all in one screen. Our family, all in those little dots.

Except you.

There's no dot that lights up for you.

I don't have location services enabled for your phone...you never did have one. 

I wonder where you would have been on this birthday. Twenty is a big number...or is it? 

I don't have location services turned on for you, but I know where you are every day - it sounds so silly, but I know you're deeply enmeshed in each one of us. 

I just wish you were here to have a little dot too.

Happy 20th, Sammy. We miss you bunches.

2nd birthday: Best Shot Monday
3rd birthday: Birthday marathon
4th birthday: This is your birthday song
5th birthday: Five is a big number
6th birthday: Six is Awesome
7th birthday: Lucky Number Seven and Birthday Boy
8th birthday: Little Things
9th birthday: Birthdate
10th birthday: Just Not Okay
12th birthday: Dozen Donuts
13th birthday: I'm Sure
14th birthday: Because You Haven't Grown Up
15th birthday: Frozen
16th birthday: Sweet 16
17th Birthday: This isn't 17
18th Birthday: Never An Adult
19th Birthday: Would you?