Now and Then
Now When I took the grandkids camping at Lake Minatare last week, three-year-old Lucy wore her favorite shirt, the one I bought her a year ago for her second birthday. I'm glad to know she likes the shirt, but even her older sister has been trying to tell her it's way too small. In addition, it has faded to a sickly off-white, and the kitty is barely there anymore. Since I had ordered the shirt from Amazon, I pulled out my phone, clicked on the "Buy Again" feature, and found that the shirt was still available, much to Meagan's surprise. So I reordered it in a bigger size, and that was that. The shirt arrived a couple of days later. Lucy put it on immediately, and Meagan snapped a quick photo of an excited girl with her new, still favorite shirt, which is big enough to last for at least another year. As I thought about Lucy and her favorite shirt, I remembered another little girl with another favorite shirt. Lucy's mom, Meagan, was four years old when she wo...