I just saw the cutest set of kids backpacks. The one I pictured is the cutest one of them all. As a woman who had breast cancer – notice the past tense – woohoo! – I was looking through pink totes. For one thing, I was kind of contemplating buying some kind of tote bag for when I work out at the YMCA. After having a double mastectomy plus ten lymph nodes removed, I need to regain full strength. Additionally, I wish to lose sixty pounds before getting reconstruction surgery the late fall of 2011.
So as I was looking through pink totes in honor of breast cancer, I saw this adorable backpack. My second to youngest niece took ballet for a while. Now she has started gymnastics. She is in kindergarten, by the way. She already has a Tinker Bell backpack that she really likes; however, her little sister is aching to take either a dance class or gymnastics class just like her big sister. So when she finally comes of age, she is not quite 2 ½ currently, perhaps this will be a backpack that I will purchase for her. For one thing, it has wheels. That means the backpack will not strain her back. For another thing, it is absolutely adorable. For a third thing, she loves pink.
When I went to school, using a backpack was not in vogue until I got to college. My college backpack was green and rather plain and unexciting. It is so fun to see what fun options there are for young people today. It almost makes you wish you could be extra young again. Almost! Though actually, you couldn’t pay me to wish to repeat high school or junior high again.
But for those of you with young people in your life, it’s nice to know that you can bring color and pleasure to their lives with some really fun gifts.
In any case, have a wonderful holiday season with the people you love. I am more grateful than ever to have my newly acquired good health – I am now cancer-free – so that I can spend this Christmas and many holidays to come with my beloved husband and my other family members who I love so very much. Happy holidays and a very happy new year!
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