It's Valentine's Day Friday so I took in one book that was obvious and one not so to read to the kids.
This one has been a favorite of mine for a long time and I didn't realize how long till I looked at the publication date - almost 30 years!
The author is great at shining a light on normal everyday everykid reactions to things. But his one is one of my favorite of hers.
Gilbert's teacher told the class to write a nice poem for everyone's valentine. Gilbert doesn't have any trouble with that till he gets to Lewis and Margaret. Lewis once tweaked Gilbert's nose and it hurt and Margaret once made fun of Gilbert's glasses. So he doesn't write nice poems for them and he thinks it's funny...but maybe they wouldn't. What he does next always, ALWAYS brings a gasp or an "oh no!" from one of the kids listening.
On the stitching front I am down to the last 4 squares of the BA quilt then have the border. I'm well well ahead of my self imposed schedule so feel pretty good about that.
We are trying to stay away from the flu that is galloping through town so are hunkering down when we can and not being frivolous out in the world. (As I say this I'm immersed with third graders at the museum this whole week and went to a first grade class to read and there isn't anything germier than kids.) But so far so good. I spent the weekend making three pillows from scraps. After they were completely finished and ironed, on two of them there is one very glaring mistake that will stick out to anyone with eyes. Yes, I did it twice-so I'm not showing them to you. But when I thought about what it would take to take them apart down to the studs I told myself I personally can live with it and ordered the inserts.
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