UPDATE: Robert did it! He walked right up to the performance area and delivered the poem he wrote about his PlayMobil pyramid with all the confidence of a 5 year old SuperBoy. We were very proud of him. He really liked his collar.
  We were just as proud when Laurel performed her recital dance without a  flicker of stage fright or a single misstep.
 Then she showed her quilt. As people oohed and ahhed, an adorable hambone seven year old boy stood up and said, “It’s so beautiful it makes me faint!”  With that he clutched his chest and collapsed to the floor.  Just like Fred Sanborn! This talent show was more fun than a Disney movie.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   Â
Costumes. That’s what I’m talkin’ about—and it’s not even Halloween. I got the call this evening that our 5 year old grandson, Robert, has made a last minute decision to participate in a talent show tomorrow.
Is this tacky or what?
Wearing this gaudy neck accessory, he will read a poem he has written about pyramids or mummies or Egyptians.  Whatever. For this, the first public reading of his literary work, I volunteered to make our little Boy King a “real” Egyptian collar to replace the paper one he had created earlier.
He wanted this picture taken in front of the stairs because it reminds him of the pyramids.
Even for a quick and easy project, this took longer than I expected. Throughout the process of selecting scraps, evaluating trims, digging through buttons and finally sewing, I reminisced about all the costumes I have sewn through the years. That’s a lot of memories, all tinged with –or should I say cringed with–uneasiness. It just seemed shamefully inappropriate to be tracing off Sarah Howard Stone’s spoke collar for a pharaoh frou-frou. Continue reading →
