Friday Night

"When you were a little girl, I used to be your mommy," Elena said tonight.  "And you would ask me and I would tell you things."

She was sitting in the bubble bath with a white bubble beard, telling me as casually as if it were a memory.

She just made a batch of chocolate cupcakes from scratch, with a little help from her former child--and we had chocolate drippings everywhere.  "We sure are messy girls!" she said.

In my bedroom are two giraffes.  We named one Gillian and the other Ginny--but then she decided we should name them both Gillian--Big Gillian and Little Gillian.

"Say Cheese, Big Gillian!"