Two weeks ago she came home. (With a year of college under her belt and a car that magically held enough boxes, bags, hangers and clothes to fill our front room and spill out into the entryway.) She took to having a kitchen again liked riding a bike (banana bread, cinnamon rolls, sugar cookies), cheerfully resigned herself to reading books to Starling and playing Legos with Hans on demand, practiced a lot of piano, organized the game closet, helped me sort sheet music, went twice to her sister’s Fiddler on the Roof play, started working one job and filled out a million applications for a second, took siblings hiking and ... stood in the midst of a tangle of bikes (why do we have more bikes than kids?) in a cluttered garage so I could take the black-and-white pictures below. She’s a gem. And I like seeing my oldest two out navigating the world. And I like even better when they come back home.
And to end: a few photos from her 19th birthday back in April.
Oh Daisy. What a girl. I like how you list what she cooked in matter-of-fact parentheses, like sports articles do with football players' injuries (knee). It's so sweet that she took her siblings on hikes and let them help her bake etc!
ReplyDeleteI love the pictures you took, except it's kind of a crime to put Daisy's hair in black and white.
Haha! I know! I was asking Daisy if she preferred the black and whites out there colors. She said “Maybe the black and white ones.” And I was like, “but your hair!!!!!!”
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