My little one’s school had a photographer come as a thank you for moms who had volunteered during the year.  When I told Maris she said she wanted to wear her Chapel uniform (their most formal) and I was so pleased she wanted to have her picture with me.  Her school has a beautiful organic garden complete with a bridge under which fish placidly swim and flowers upon which newly hatched butterflies land.  It cannot be said enough:  I adore a theme.  So this year my little one had all things fox.  She had a fox lunch box, a fox water bottle, a fox backpack, and a fox nap mat.  She even had a fox ice pack and fox reusable sandwich bags.  And all the stickers I put in her belongings of course had foxes next to her name.  So I decided to wear my fox sweater in her honor.  She adores it because it is of a mommy fox kissing her baby.  Since we have wolf hybrids, I love coyotes and foxes which are their cousins.  The famous Roman writer Horace, said, “A picture is a poem without words”.  I find myself uncharacteristically without words but I can say what this picture exudes for me — and that is love; love for my clever little fox.