Birthday No. 5.

May you be smart enough to use the current when it's taking you where you want.

And may you be strong enough to swim against it when it's not.

Florence Nightingale.

Our daughter and her cousins wanted to pool their money together to buy her brother a fifty-cent birthday present. They came up a little short.

Fortunately, her overly-kindhearted aunt was on hand to chip in the remaining two quarters.