This hat looked much cuter on Caroline as she sat in bed reading on New Year’s Eve.

I had envisioned all sorts of clever things to say to go along with the photo. I would write about a great year of reading, the books to read in the coming year and on and on.

And then Caroline saw me coming with a camera.

She has realized that people she doesn’t know (and worse, the moms of people she does know!), read this blog. She has, therefore, become very protective of what pictures I post and what I say. I believe it is important to respect her wishes regarding how she is presented in the big wide world so…

Because you are all readers, you can use your active imagination to picture my Happy New Year picture…