On this day...

On this day, in 2004, I was at the beach with my then 3 month old son, Jonathan. I dipped his toes in the water, and while he drew them back and made a face, he didn't cry. I remember that the water was fairly cold. I would have NEVER dipped Anna's toes in the water at that age. I definitely treated them differently... whether it was a personality or a birth order or a gender thing, I will never know. And which came first, the way I treated them, or the way they were? I always think that they were born themselves and I just parented them accordingly. It is hard to really treat them equally, because they are so different. Anyways, it was a very pretty day at the beach, clear blue skies, a little cool but sunny. On this day, 6 years later, in 2010, you would NOT find me at the beach... we are in the middle of the hardest, longest cold snap I can ever remember! Just my memory, not scientific fact or anything. There may have been other winters like this, and maybe for one reason or another, I just wasn't paying attention. I used to tune the weather out. It seemed irrelevant to me when I was younger. I feel like I talk about the weather so much more than I used to... does that mean I am getting older? Of course, yes, I am getting older. We all are, right?