More Family Stories
- My daughter's first attempt at using chopsticks at a family dinner ended with more food on the table than in her mouth, but she refused any help and eventually, stubbornly, got the hang of it.
- My son's first solo trip to the corner store to buy milk turned into a twenty-minute ordeal once he got distracted by the candy aisle. Though he did, eventually, remember the actual assignment.
- My daughter's homemade birthday gift for her best friend took three weekends to finish, a hand-sewn pillow with an embroidered design that turned out genuinely better than anything store-bought could have been.
- My son's attempt at building a paper airplane that could fly across the whole backyard involved seventeen separate prototypes over two afternoons before one finally made it the full distance.
- The dog's version of fetch involves running after the ball enthusiastically, then proudly returning with literally anything else instead, a sock, a leaf, once memorably an entire garden gnome he'd dug up.
- My daughter's science fair project on plant growth accidentally became a month-long lesson in patience. Since her plant took twice as long to sprout as the instructions had promised it would.