The Truth Comes Out

Sarabeth has always wanted to be a mermaid. She is not quite convinced that mermaids are really a myth. In fact, my curly-haired daughter has a book about curly hair which suggests curly-haired women are actually descended from mermaids. Sarabeth latched on to that idea, as you can imagine.

After years of drawing mermaids, cutting out pictures of mermaids, reading books about mermaids, collecting mermaid Barbies, etc., Sarabeth finally got a mermaid costume for her 8th birthday. Then, on our Disney cruise, she became fast friends with Princess Ariel (aka The Little Mermaid) and purchased a mermaid doll in St. Thomas as one of her souvenirs.

Recently all Sarabeth's mermaid dreams came true when she got her very own swimmable mermaid tail. She is in her shimmery fish-tailed glory now, in the bathtub and in the swimming pool, where she always wanted to be anyway.