My sister is making the costumes for her daughters. The older girl, who is 5, is going to be a pink mermaid. She wanted to be Ariel, but those costumes are expensive, so her mother convinced her that pink was even better. The younger girl, who is 3, is dressing up as Rapunzel from 'Tangled' (with another homemade costume). I will be a bear again, provided the weather is cool enough to make the costume tolerable (fake fur when the temperature is in the 90's is sheer misery).


"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”

- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland