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My mom was the Queen of Birthday Parties.

I’m not sure it was ever her intention to secure that title but, as an innately creative and exceptionally loving person, her natural inclination is to honor each of life’s occasions with the flair and fanfare it deserves — sometimes even more than it deserves.

In our family, a good report card never came without a celebratory dinner; it was never too early for a milkshake to commemorate one of life’s many milestones (as long as you’d recently been to the dentist’s office); and birthdays, well, they were days to go all out. There was not a detail left unnoticed, not an iota of love held back.

I hope that I will one day be the kind of mother who celebrates with her children in a way that’s as deep and committed. My mom has left some pretty big party shoes to fill. Here are three of my very favorite birthday parties.

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