Anna Bixby Articles

I really wanted to get a move on and start putting up all of the new pictures that I had recently gotten from my mother before she arrived for a visit. I had never taken the time to hang the photos but I knew that she would expect to see them up and displayed. It took me a very long time to get them up because I could not stop looking at them and remembering the times when they were taken.

Many of them were from when I would sometimes sneak into my brother’s rooms and put on boys pajamas. It seemed that the boys pajamas were so much more comfortable then the girls nightgowns that I was expected to wear. I liked the boys footed pajamas much better, they kept you much more comfortable than my nightgowns and you could just run around and play without having to worry about your dress like nightgown flying up and showing your underwear.

When my mother arrived about three hours after I had hung the last picture frame, she gave me a gift to open. I thought that my husband and kids were going to die of laughter when I unwrapped a pair of footed pajamas that were just my size, and were pink. I guess that someone finally got smart and figured out that girls do not always have to wear nightgowns, no matter what their age is.