Ellie was invited to a play date yesterday at a friend’s house.

I love the stories the kids return home with including things like, “Mom! Their house is so huge, even the parents have their own bedrooms.”

Yesterdays retelling of the day’s events was interesting. Sure she finally talked about painting, playing a number of creative games, giggling with her friend over a snack of “pink raisins” but what Ellie found most interesting was that the host Mom spent some time ironing her daughter’s dresses.

“Mom, it was so funny to watch. She was ironing dresses!”

This from the child who has only ever witnessed her own mother iron when it was time to melt the beads onto the craft project.

Why on earth would anyone use an iron for anything else?

You’re going to meet a lot of different people in your life Ellie.

Some of them are going to be crazy.