A Snowy Rainish Day....

...on this 25th day of the new year.  And a big fat welcome to the world to the first grandchild of one of my BFFs, a baby girl, who I hope will have a fabulous, healthy life and be a kind and loving soul and make the world a better place.  I don't pine for "the old days" and wish I were back in the time before computers and cell phones and Netflix and 24-hour news, but I am very grateful for growing up in the decades I did.  People call that a simpler time.  I think of it as a time where when we were bored, Mom made us pick up a book or go outside and play.  We didn't have computer games or phones plastered to our faces.  We did have a beautiful creek in the back where we would go hang out, wade in it, build dams, swim, walk north or south as far as we could go, look for crawdads, and we had a big back and front yard, and in the very rural place where I grew up (not so rural now), lots of nature to explore and lots of bike riding to do.  I'm not so rose-colored glasses that I don't remember being a little peeved at Mom that those were pretty much our choices, but looking back, I read a whole bunch of great books and spent a whole lot of time outside.  And no regrets about either of those things :-)

I hope your world is rosy and beautiful and that your day is full of fantastical things.