Summer Fashions For One and All

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Vitamin D

Spring illicits so many wonderful feelings. Hope, renewal, love. Wishing all of you a well deserved respite from Old Man Winter and his harsh hold. Time to feel that warm wind and note the emerging greenery. Cheers!

CELEBRATIONS!

The resounding theme this week has been one of pride and joy. So many upcoming weddings, graduations, baby showers and reunions. It is truly amazing to witness the imprint ladies perpetuate on all the is right in the world. Cheers!

LEAVE THE DOOR OPEN

Remember when your Mom would give you sage advice? Nuggets like, all things in moderation, this too will pass, feed the birds and they will sing, youth is wasted on the young, and my personal favorite, end each day with a sweet? Somehow I knew she was right but just could not accept the fact that truly Mother does know best. Now I treasure these memories and wish I could spend those moments appreciating the wise words sprinkled throughout my youth. Fortunately, Ginger & Mary Ann hosts lovely women who although are not our relatives have seen and endured much joy as well as hardship. Today just such a lady spent a small part of her day here. While buying a new top as a pick me up on a dismal January afternoon she encouraged me to "always leave the door open" when raising your children. Whether you are in agreement or not, let that door stay open. She went on to explain how her daughter is now living with her as she processes a new MS diagnosis, and how grateful she was that through their tumultuos relationship she never backed the young woman into a corner. Heading out into the gray drizzle the woman caught my eye and twinkled, remember leave the door open. Just as she left my phone buzzed with a text from my college boy, call me. Whether cyber or virtual, the door is ready and waiting.

MIDDLE GROUND

Today's shoppers spanned our sandwiched generation. Two vibrant twenty somethings bounded in giggling as they showed their 5 month baby bumps. So unlike our pregnancies, they were looking for tight fitting shirts to ACCENTUATE their bellies. On their heels came a distracted Mom of a 22 year old leaving the proverbial nest. We wondered if the young ladies could possibly envision all the tender loving moments they were about to experience. As far as Moscow Mom, could she possibly remember every tender loving moment spent getting her son ready for this adventure of a lifetime?

New Year Resolution

After a whirlwind December, Pam and I have had a moment to reflect on the first quarter of Ginger & Mary Ann Boutique. Sorting through these phenomenal weeks we have been most surpised by the amazingly interesting clientele that grace our door. From long time pals, family, and newly made friends, the shop has quickly become a second home and a wonderful place to embrace the human spirit. So, this is our New Year Resolution, to share tidbits of life's intracacies as we experience them at 151W. Jefferson. Cheers to a rich and fruitful 2011! Carrie & Pam