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Maggie has been so concerned with death and dying these days. My grandma’s cat died a number of months ago and it has brought about many, many conversations, which often catch us off-guard about the ending of life. We’ve read a few books and done lots of talking, but at the end of the day she’s still trying to wrap her brain around it. I suppose I am too. And we’ll keep plowing through those difficult conversations. In the mean time, life is so full these days. Thriving, blossoming, and bursting. Our bedtime routine gets stretched a bit longer each night because running in the backyard, post bath, seems necessary…..and adds smiles to everybody’s faces.

Also, because when you’re four you can be curious about death and nightgowns at the same time, Maggie has been fascinated with my mom’s nightgown for a very, very long time. No offense, Mom, but your ‘frock’ isn’t really as beautiful as Maggie has led you to belive. But it has also inspired lots of conversations late at night when ‘somebody’ is supposed to be falling asleep. I finally picked Maggie up a night gown this past weekend and when I gave it to her, she first hugged me and then took it and danced around the house with it holding it up. Dramatic much? At the end of the day when it was time to get jammies on, she snuggle-hugged me again because she was so thrilled to have a ‘nightie’.

To say we’re dealing with the big and little things around here, really isn’t an understatement at all.

We’re covering it all….in a nightie.