More Family Stories
- 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.
- My son insisted on tying his own shoes for the first time, no help allowed, and took a genuinely long time working through it. He finally got there, and hasn't asked for help since.
- My daughter's homemade friendship bracelets business, run entirely out of our garage, has somehow generated more consistent weekend income than most of my own side projects ever have managed to.