I said I wasn't sure. Lillian scrunched up her face. I think I had just asked the dumbest question she had ever heard. Lillian, like most children, does not have a day planner or a Rolodex. Life is a child's world of adventures and imagination, silliness and laughter, curiosity and learning.
Life is lived in the moment.
Even within an invariable structure of rules, responsibilities, and the plans of mothers there lurks always an energy of simmering fun, ready to bubble up at a moment's notice. Like most children, Lillian loves to play. Certainly children are the masters of play. It's what they do. It's also the way they learn, acquire cognitive and motor skills, and just make life interesting and fun.