Remember when

from Maybelle the Cable Car by Virginia Lee Burton

Remember when the City was small
when everyone knew everyone else
and nobody hurried and nobody worried.
Those were the good old times.

I want to slow down. I don't want to worry. I want things to be like they were before, but what has changed? Probably me.

New promise to self: Stop the worrying. Doesn't do any good. Be mindful of the moment. No sense living out in lala land if I'm missing the great moments in front of me. Be friendly and cheerful. Perhaps a little more friendly in this world will make it seem a little smaller.

Momma is a fox

Vail is funny. She gets things into her head, either through us putting them there or through her own little world, and they stick. I was trying to teach her to say "Momma is a fox". It just made me giggle. She likes labeling things. She's constantly saying "Momma is little. Daddy-o is big." So I thought, perhaps she could say I was a fox. And see what Chris said about it. So the other day she announces that Momma is a fox. Then follows it up with "Daddy is a cow." Now, she is constantly saying that Daddy is Mr. Handsome. Daddy is "so cute". Daddy is "SO handsome". But where on earth did she get "Daddy is a cow"? Really. I've never said that. Perhaps Daddy has sung Old MacDonald a few times and was the cow. Who knows?