Miss My Anorak

When we were very young, we had these blue anoraks.   I loved my anorak so much that it was hidden away in my cabinet for years with its sleeves folded in and the whole thing rolled up and tucked into the hood.  And when I say 'years', I mean 'YEARS' as in my three kids could have worn it at some point in time  had I remembered that it was in my cabinet.  Alas, the kids are too big for that anorak and besides I already donated it before we left the home country (at least I hope I did).  As for me, I don't think I went to enough cold places as a child to merit wearing the anorak because I have little recollection of me wearing my anorak yet in spite that it was a special piece of clothing.

There was a sale at Rivers some time back and they were selling 'puffy jackets' at half price.  It was still Fall at the time and I wasn't really looking to buy a jacket.  However a friend of mine had recently mentioned to me that the secret to keeping warm was not so much the layering as it was the air-tightness of the clothes, and the jacket I happened to pick up was size XS (extra small).  When I tried one on, it was soooo nice and cosy.   (Let's make new anorak-like memories.)


SOLD!   

I usually wear my puffy jacket at home so whenever I catch people on Skype these days (and they see me wearing my new jacket), they would say, "It must be cold there."

Little do they know, the kids love to hug me while I wear the jacket.  They put their arms in between the layer of clothes I am wearing and the jacket I have on top and they go, "Oh, it's nice and warm in there."


These pictures are especially for Z, who mistook MyGirl for me yesterday.  She said we looked like twins.  I had to take a second shot to capture more of the puffy jacket because MyGirl said that if the blogpost was about the puffy jacket then the puffy jacket had to be part of the picture.