2025 A to Z Challenge Blog for the Letter P

April 18, 2025. It’s another “nature can’t make up its mind” day in my neighborhood. Hope things are better in yours. Well, it’s Good Friday and the Easter weekend is upon us. Easter’s late this year and yet it feels as if it was St Patrick’s day just yesterday.

Back in the day, Easter meant new clothes, new hats and gloves, and all the other lovely things that went with church on Easter morning. Not anymore. This year, I’ll be watching the service on You Tube, possibly still in my nightgown, sipping my cup of coffee. Avoiding crowds of disease carrying strangers is the order of the day.

Out eldest son is home for the weekend, and our daughter and her family , including Eleni’s boyfriend, will be here for dinner. Normally, I make a huge meal with lamb, ham, and all the trimmings, but this year we’re having appetizers followed by lasagna from the YIG delicatessen, Caesar salad, garlic bread, and dessert. I don’t know what it is since Angela is in charge of that. It may seem like an odd menu for this particular holiday, but it’s an easy no brainer one, and given my level of discomfort, it’s the best I can do. Next year, I promise lamb once more. By then, I will be 100% back to normal, walking without pain, and able to do some, if not all, of the things I could do before. Right now, I have to accept my limitations and move on from there.

Did you think I’d forgotten the letter of the day? Not quite. Today’s letter is P and I’ve chosen to talk about the color PINK. It used to be that pink was for girls and blue was for boys–it still is at gender reveal parties. Back in my day, we didn’t know what the baby was until it arrived, so my children wore a lot of white, yellow, mint green, and turquoise, the blue or pink coming after they were born. Of course, after two boys, our daughter wore a lot of blue hand-me-downs, too.

Today, anyone can wear pink. My husband has a couple of pink shirts that look great on him, and my grandsons do, too. Pink is also the symbol of the anti-bullying campaign in our schools, with Pink Shirt Day at the end of February.

On Sunday night, there was another kind of pink, a Pink Moon, also called an Easter moon. A friend took some great pictures. The last one is mine, taken through my office window, with a lovely view of one of our utility sheds.

makes sense that PINK should be your song today! See you tomorrow for Q. Here’s the MASTER LIST https://tinyurl.com/tauke86z