Mother’s Day
Garnet was going to be gone for a while on the Saturday before Mother’s Day. I told Sparkle Girl and Doobins that I thought that would be an excellent time for them to work on their Mother’s Day cards.
They said that sounded fine with them.
When the time came, though, Mr. Doobins was not the least bit interested in working on a card.
It was only with pressure from me that he came up with a message for me to write inside.
We then went through another round about decorating the outside. After more pressure, he took a minimalist approach. He drew a single Lego brick.
By then, I was thoroughly irritated. But having a major falling out with him over a Mother’s Day card seemed absurd so I decided to let it go.
On Mother’s Day, Doobins gave Garnet his Lego brick card, and Sparkle Girl gave her the mermaid card that she had made.
Then Doobins pulled the card he had made at school out of his backpack. It was a masterpiece. On it, he had drawn the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, the Great Wall of China, Big Ben, the Great Pyramid and Sphinx, and Easter Island.
“Oh, drat,” he said, “I forgot Stonehenge.”
Looking at it, I could see why all he had left in him was a Lego brick.
