Seeing Scottie and Nell run across the lawn yelling “Hi!! Hi, Peter Rabbitt” trying to greet a little brown bunny was beyond heart warming. The cuteness doesn’t stop.
I really think about being with my grandparents in the summer and running around the grass and walking through the woods down to the lake. And the sound of the sprinkler system outside in the morning. I loved going to the Downey’s each summer…shopping with Mama Downey who was an excellent shopper, very ladylike, interested in fashion and make up; smelling her Youth Dew perfume; visiting their good friend Ed Koch and him giving me stuffed animals each timer I went to his office (and one time I wore a bubble gum pink ruffled sun dress that Mama Downey let me buy and Kitzy Cat and John were mortified I wore when they saw the pictures); playing the piano in their living room; riding their exercise bike in the kitchen; playing restaurant and making the adults give me their orders; going through cookbooks and cooking with Mama Downey who was such a thoughtful menu planner, cook, and baker (I looooved her ginger snaps); swimming in the lake; Papa Downey buying vanilla and chocolate popsicles; the way Mama Downey would call my grandfather to get his attention “Bill?” and he would answer wittily “Marion?”; watching Wimbledon in their bedroom; hearing Mama Downey tell me about my mother; looking through her drawers at the dolls and ribbons and old pictures; smelling the guest soaps in the linen closet; feeling extremely loved.