My niece, Amelia, known as Mimi, is 16 today. She is the most UN-sweet-16 girl you can imagine, so I was totally at a loss as to what to get for her. A shirt I sent her years ago that I thought was pretty hip – photo prints on a t-shirt – was deemed too girly, so I was thinking things like circle/slash sweet sixteen, or PINK – but down with pink kinda means something else … I thought maybe I could make a little vimeo, with lots of anti-sweet sixteen, anti-hello kitty, anti-cute girly things in it … but of course all those thoughts did not come to concreteness.
So instead here’s what I came up with – a blog post, with some photos of family memories. And I have some plans for additional gifts to come later in the summer, that involve sewing and money. So we’ll stretch it out a bit. For now, Happy Birthday, Mimi, with love from Aunt Deb.
For a couple of years, we always came to Seattle in August, for the week with my birthday, and to get John & Al back from their visit to their Dad in California. These are from summer 1998, the first time we came to visit at the house where you live now, on 30th Ave. My 43rd birthday, and even though he’s not in the pictures, the last time Opa was with us. We stayed at a hotel, right across from the Lake Union, not too far from the boat place where your mom & dad’s 25th anniversary party was last spring. You and your mom came to see us off our last morning – that’s what the picture with you in cow spot pants and your mom in striped pants are. We went to chamber music on Bainbridge island, and to some kind of butterfly show at the zoo, and goofed around a lot at your house. It was a good trip.
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