The last year he is legally ours 💔

Tomorrow is the birthday of the world's most perfect teenager, he turns 17. This birthday will be bittersweet because this is the last year before he comes of age. I want this year to go slowly, while the offspring want the exact opposite. The result will most likely be that in my world the year will have passed in the blink of an eye, while for Junior, time will move slower than a snail.

I can't understand where all the years have gone. It feels like yesterday I was pregnant and next year at this time he will be legally an adult. In Sweden, the 18th birthday is an important event, you can get a driver's license, vote in the government, municipal & county council elections, get married, do military service and go to war, buy alcohol in restaurants and bars but not buy alcohol in a store. In Sweden, the state has a monopoly on alcohol sales. Restaurants and bars pay the same amount as private individuals do in the stores run by the state and is named Systembolaget.

All Junior wishes for his birthday is new controllers for his VR and stocks. My in-laws chose to purchase the controls and my parents have purchased 9 shares of Horizon Technology Finance Corporation Common Stock (HRZN). To make the shares a little more of a gift, I have helped my parents compile a chart of the dividends over the time period 2024-2032 under the assumption that the dividend does not change and an exchange rate based on 1USD=10SEK. The chart also assumes that Junior buys a new share as soon as the dividend reaches the required amount.

See the chart below.

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