Sleepover
May 27th, 2009 Posted in FamilyMy friends, Paul and Caroline, just passed along a few classic photos from this past weekend. My Maggie, great friends with sisters Lucy and Zoe, slept over their house on Saturday night. These girls have known each other all their lives, from infancy, really. And they really do love each other.
At some point, Paul decided to check on the sleeping girls. And this is what he found:
The nose is Lucy’s; the feet are Zoe’s; the ears are Maggie’s.
Here’s a little better view . . .
. . . and that, in a picture, is the story of their friendship.
After having two boys, Nick and Gavin, we were blessed with Maggie, and a whole new world of girl energy, issues, feelings. Every day I’m grateful for that, for Maggie, and for all the new things — insights and appreciations — she daily brings into our lives. I remember struggling to do her hair in the morning, and Maggie’s unhappiness with my flawed technique. It was so complicated, clips and bands and scrunchies and whatnot, hapless Dad could never get it right. “Why don’t you just wear a baseball hat?!” I’d bemoan, exasperated. “I’m a boy; I don’t know how to do these things.” Maggie would just sit there, miserable. But I’m learning, slowly, a little more each day. And Maggie has come to accept Dad’s limitations.
Needless to say: When Maggie returned home from her sleepover, we strongly recommended that she wash her face.