Pajamas

Good morning!

I love pajamas.  I mean, I really love pajamas.  I love them so much that, if I could, I would wear them all day, everyday.  I love them so much I actually do wear them all day some days and most of the day other days.  I’d love to have a collection of pj’s for every day of the month! Really!  I’d even settle for every day of the week!

In the picture above, I’m wearing my favorite pair. Can you tell that’s what I have on?  Do the roses give it away? They are silky and feel elegant. I’m wearing them with my pearls to celebrate Kamala Harris becoming the Vice President of the United States.  Quite an occasion. One that certainly deserved such elegance.  Right?

I can only wear these particular pajamas in the day time.  They are too warm to wear to bed. So maybe that makes them lounging pajamas.  Anyway, I feel a bit old Hollywood when I wear them.  I’ve worn them to Zoom meetings.

My next favorite pajamas are cotton with fun print capri bottoms and solid contrasting short sleeved tops.  I have two pair.  One has a white background  with pink cocktails; the other pair is turquoise with Eiffel Towers.  Both have pink tops.  They are old and now raggedy around the tie waists.  The tops are a bit stretched out.  They are NOT too hot to wear to bed and work in all seasons.  I add a soft, light hoody jacket (a slightly heavier one with fake fur around the hood in cooler weather) when I get up in the morning, thus they become a total outfit, fit for as long into the day as I choose to wear them. I’ll wear them until they completely fall off my body.  They are that comfortable. I don’t wear them to Zoom meetings.

This love affair with pajamas and wearing them all day began, I’m pretty sure, during the Time of Covid!  How much we learned from that time.  Coloring your hair, putting on makeup, wearing panty hose, getting all dressed up isn’t as as important as you seemed to make it in the past.  And it sure as heck is a lot less trouble and a lot more comfortable to stay in your pajamas all day.  I love the lessons from the Time of Covid.

What does this have to do with the season of Advent?  Shucks!  I’m trying to figure that out.  

Maybe it’s about keeping things simple and focusing on the truly important. Being comfortable with yourself, getting to know yourself in new ways, letting go of facades, learning to be more present to beauty and joy and the peace you find within.  Being more aware of and present to those closest to you.  Taking time to listen to good music, read your favorite kind of book, have a real conversation with that special person, be creative, get back in touch with that thing you use to love to do or always wanted to learn.  

Watching, waiting for the quiet voice that will always come.  

In your pajamas!