Sayonara Seven: A Candy Sushi Party

Day Before the Eighth Birthday

Abby: Mom, I don't want it to be my birthday.

Mom: What? Why not?

Abby: Because then it will be over and I'll have to wait a whole 'nother year for it to come again.

We have this same conversation every year -- which is amazing to me, because between the classroom doughnuts, the annual restaurant-picking ritual, the party with…