This Reminds Me

Archive for December 9th, 2007

So we’re not dashing through the snow – the temperature has been hanging in the mid-80′s.  But it’s still Christmas in San Antonio.

Ruffians on the River Walk, where we’d hoped to ride a barge under the 200,000+ twinkly lights strung in the treetops.  After seeing the line with its 2+ hour wait…ummm….no.  Instead we walked along the river and four of us enjoyed River Center mall.  You’ll have to guess which four.

Hot chocolate at Whole Foods after church, where we stopped so I could buy whole cashews and filberts to make caramel corn later this week. I finally found Julia two new long-sleeved church dresses online at Kohl’s this month after a search of:  Target (online and three stores), Wal-Mart (online and store), Penneys (online), Land’s End (online), Tuesday Morning (store), Kohl’s (store), Sam’s (store), Costco (store), Old Navy (online and two stores) and Steinmart (store.)  Can someone please tell me why church dresses for little girls are so hard to find?  I mean just simple cotton dresses.  All children’s clothing seem to come in three styles now:  1.  Shorts or pants for school – many of which fit into the next category, which is…..  2.  Trashy.  3.  And – during the holidays - Ridiculous (dry clean.)   I long for the days at Target when you could buy nice little cotton dresses reasonably-priced, instead of hurriedly flipping through racks of low-cut, too-tight, entirely inappropriate styles, designed for what my grandmother would have deemed a “strumpet.”

It’s a gingerbread Alamo at Whole Foods!  Reminded me of how we posed in front of this Texas shrine for our Christmas cards in 2000, after our first full year in San Antonio – “Remember the Woodworths.”

Rachel was 9; Lois and Hannah had just turned 7 and 5.  Julia was less than a year old and 5,617 mi. away.

Stay tuned for more hanging around San Antonio during the holidays….