.......It's amazing how the smell of some things can bring you back to moments of the past.....and in an instant, you can feel like you are in a place that you have been in a different lifetime....one inhale of it can take you back to the emotions of that time in your life......today I had one of those moments......and it was the smell of playdoh.......it took me back to the age of 5 or 6....playing with it in my back patio, on our round table, next to my pool, wearing pigtails and a bikini and soaking in the sun.....I could even smell the Florida salty air as I was pulled back into time....and amazingly, all of this was captured in the 1 or 2 seconds that the smell of playdoh registered in my memory.......and I was happy....but happier to now be the participating observer with my girls on a rainy, wet and cold NYC day.....
......Elsie received a playdoh kitchen set from Papa T over Christmas and although this wasn't the first time she had played with it; today was the first time she played it with Momma....and Momma hasn't played with playdoh in 30 years.....
......boy, was she excited.....
....Daddy is more creative with the idea of how to make pretend food out of playdoh, but we did our best today.....one hand helping Elsie with the "kitchen tools" and one hand constantly pulling playdoh out of Callie's mouth.....
....here is my baby girl right before popping this entire green ball of delicious playdoh on her palette....and after the green was married to the white and the yellow was mashed into the red to now make a burnt orange shade......we were done.....playdoh everywhere and stuck to everything.....it was dinner time and Daddy was coming home early before his big trip this week.....I didn't care how much got on the floor, I laughed at how much Callie ate, I found playdoh in their finger nails, the cracks of the wood floors, stuck under the table.....and as I mashed the wet, slobbery, multi-colored playdoh back into the little yellow canisters....I just smiled....I smiled at the memories of my childhood and the memories of today with my children....it was blissful....
......brightly colored bliss.....
......brightly colored bliss.....