Saturday, February 23rd, 2019

Heart Crayons

This year, I decided to teach my children the true meaning of Valentine’s day: day-after-Valentine’s-day 50% off sales on gourmet chocolate. I bought one heart-shaped box for Papa. We shared it over the course of a few days. When the box was empty, he gave it to Iris. It remained empty until we re-melted down all of the crayons that we had turned into block shapes in order to turn them into heart-shapes. I sewed protective stretch-denim bags for each of the crayons. Iris decided a heart-shaped box is the perfect place for heart-shaped crayons. I have no idea what we will do with so many giant heart-shaped crayons. Here, you can see Martin testing out the red one.

 

Monday, February 11th, 2019

First Photo in the New House

My children have been sick for months.

As soon as I think it is getting better, it gets worse.

I move their feverish bodies from room to room as I paint the walls.