Valentine's Day

I had the greatest conversation with Sydney today. I begin the subject of Valentine's Day card production. Sydney imediately came back with the stats on her reality. With three boys in school they have over 100 cards to bring to school. The Bonney Boys have had to long give up the homemade cards. Something to look forward to.

For now, we only had 19 for school to make but it still felt a bit like an assembly line. Spread out on the living room carpet, surrounded by paper scraps, each child chose a task that met their strengths and honed their methodology. Both children glued the hearts I cut out, Eli sure to beat beat beat as hard as he could to assure good contact. Then Eli took control of adding a shard of white, shimmery paper. He would slowly apply glue over and over to the strip. After securing the strip he would run the glue stick up and down, over and over along the strip. His expression was so serious. Eva learned that she need not add any more glue and mearly added the tule to the extra glue from Eli's work. They were quite a dedicated team. Then the fun began - choosing which card went to which friend and teacher.

Eva is a Valentine Machine. Earlier that day we made 30+ red heart paint on construction paper cards. She stamped over and over the sponge we made. Today she followed up by adding glitter glue to each one assuring each a unique style. We hope to give these randomly to people tomorrow. Eva asked,. " What if I don't like this person we give the card to?" ahhhh life's lessons begin early.