January 11, 2008 @ 12:02 am | Filed under: Friends
After looking at yesterday’s photos, Mary Beth wanted to know if Rilla ever gets a chance to wear that oh-so-fetching pink hat here in sunny San Diego. Listen, that hat is so darn cute it’d be worth running the air conditioner in winter to lower the temp enough to chill a baby’s ears. Fortunately, our nights here on the edge of the desert can be quite brisk, almost what you Easterners call nippy. We’ve even had a few days lately where we had to wear long sleeves. On Christmas Eve, when we drove up to that little mountain town, we thought about bringing jackets just in case, but they were all buried under our surfboards and beach towels, so it’s a good thing I had these scrumptious knitted caps on hand for the three younger girls. And credit for that goes totally to (whom else?) Alice. She called me one day last month especially to tell me Hanna Andersson had the world’s cutest hats marked down to a ridiculously low price and I hung up on her to get my order in rightaway. As always, she was one hundred percent correct. Cutest hats ever.
And then there’s my children who need to wear cozy hats for eight months of the year or their ears will freeze off.
Your little one is just ADORABLE in that hat!
I did the same thing-stocked up on hats, gloves and such. Love those Hanna Andersson sales!!! Just can’t stop looking at that cutie under the hat. Adorable.
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Every day is complicated, messy, and full of friction. And every day has glorious or cozy moments worth celebrating. I seldom bother to chronicle the friction and the mess because writing time is fleeting and precious—and childhood even more so. I’d rather capture the small joys that I might forget—or take for granted—if I don’t take time to set them down in words.
(Excerpt from this post about Real Life, quoted here because I don't want anyone to be under the impression that things are always perfect around here! Heaven knows we are anything but. Perfect, frictionless, orderly? Nope. Happy? Most of the time!)
Be like the bird
Who, pausing in flight
On limb too slight,
Feels it give way beneath her,
Yet sings,
Knowing she has wings.
—Victor Hugo
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“Exploration,” says John Stilgoe, author of Outside Lies Magic, “is a liberal art, because it is an art that liberates, that frees, that opens away from narrowness. And it is fun.”
Yes: it is so, so much fun, and that is why I write these posts all chattery with excitement over this or that connection the kids made today. (Or that I made myself!) I know I get carried away, but that’s the point, isn’t it, that way leading on to way has carried me away?
And yet—and yet—I think we are at once ‘carried away’ and made more fully present in the now, more rooted, by these relationships between ideas about things past and future. The joy of connection makes me want to celebrate this moment, this brief encounter with wild-haired child and broad-trunked tree, bus going by, sign on church wall, Scottish warlord creeping over the tower wall and startling the English soldier’s wife who has just put her babe in arms to sleep by crooning that the Black Douglas won’t get him. Child, laughing, shouting “Dinna ye be sae sure aboot that!” across the courtyard outside the library. How can I not celebrate this freedom?
The cutest face in the cutest hat. Your girls are beautiful!!!!
Thank you for the hat tip!!!!
Posted on January 11th, 2008 at 7:26 amAnd then there’s my children who need to wear cozy hats for eight months of the year or their ears will freeze off.
Posted on January 11th, 2008 at 10:21 amYour little one is just ADORABLE in that hat!
I did the same thing-stocked up on hats, gloves and such. Love those Hanna Andersson sales!!! Just can’t stop looking at that cutie under the hat. Adorable.
Posted on January 12th, 2008 at 5:27 amAwww… Just too-too cute!!!
Posted on January 12th, 2008 at 9:52 pmI am ROFLOL….so hard…surfboards? Are you serious?
Posted on January 14th, 2008 at 5:44 pmI am ROFLOL….so hard…surfboards? Are you serious?
Posted on January 14th, 2008 at 5:46 pm