Saturday, June 06, 2009

Cleaning out the Garage

I've been working at whittling away our belongings in storage and am confounded by the amount of too-large clothing I find there for my daughter, now almost four. And then I remember. Back when I was going through chemotherapy, I wasn't sure I would live. And I wanted my daughter to have clothing that her mommy had picked out for her.. so I purchased and hoarded bins full of clothing all the way up to size 6 yrs.!

I realize that, now two years out from cancer treatment, I have found freedom from that fear to such an extent that I don't really buy my daughter clothes at all anymore. She is regularly given boxes of hand-me-downs by friends, and it doesn't bother me much that I haven't picked them out myself. .

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