Becoming seven-and-a-half does not mean that you are any more likely to eat pizza without getting sauce smeared all over your face, nor does it mean that you will suddenly care a bit if you do. It doesn’t even mean that you are suddenly able to convince your younger sister to sit patiently in your…
Month: February 2011
following in her sister’s footsteps
Pointing out the cars – on the road, on the floor, in the books.
boxing up
While I was packing up some of the living room things on a snow day, the lids of the boxes kept being re-purposed. Here’s one version, lined with blankets and pillows. E said she had made her sister a new “bed”. When I told F that it was time to go upstairs for a nap,…