How to make a wish

Luke sometimes likes to take baths by candlelight, and he did so tonight. After he finished brushing his teeth, I held the candle out to him.

"Make a wish," I joked.

"But it's not my birthday," he said. "And, anyway, it doesn't really work unless you just wish it was your birthday or something."

"What?"

"If you wish you were grown up and in a rocket, it doesn't work. If you wish that it was Halloween this minute but you could still eat the cake, or if you wish that the lights would go out and stay out forever, it doesn't work. You have to wish that it is your birthday, or wish that you have a cake or wish that you were having a party or something like that for it to work."

"I understand," I said. "Why don't you wish you were with the man who loves you most, and blow out the candle."