Beauty Everywhere!

Zibbi became extremely upset when she discovered she would have to wear snowpants tomorrow to school.  She was concerned that everyone would "look at her".  I finally talked her down when I explained EVERYONE would be wearing snowpants (peer pressure already?!?!)  She then told me that her friend Eleanor had been wearing snow pants for awhile and that seemed really brave. 

We discussed how Ellie also did not enjoy wearing a winter coat.  How one year, on a bitterly cold day, I gave up and drove to the library with Ellie sans coat.  As we walked from the parking lot to the library door, a stranger yelled from her vehicle how it was too cold for Ellie not to have a coat.  Shortly after that, the "staff" came to live in our house and help out with the tasks Ellie hated.  There was "Camilla" who did coats.  Margarette did manicures.  When Ellie would explain all this to the hospital staff, they would look perplexed, until I explained that the entire staff looked surprisingly like Thom & myself, although they had different accents.  As I repeatedly explain, we aren't that branch of the Kennedys. 

Then Zibbi decided she was going to put all of the clothes we talked about on and go play in the back yard.  As she was slipping on her boots, she said, "Damn sock keeps slipping."  Makes me miss her "bammit" stage, seems so quaint, when she didn't realize that word started with a "d".  She went outside specifically to create snow angels.  At one point, she wanted me to join her outside, but I hadn't had the chance to get dressed yet, so I declined.  To convince me, Zibbi explained, "There's beauty everywhere".  And I thought wow, so true.  And I'm STILL not coming out there.