Making Valentines

Tab took Daniel to get his hair cut at the Top Road barber shop this morning. Last week at this time, all four of the males in this house had long, scruffy-looking hair. On Thursday I took the twins to see Tony at Top Road, and yesterday, Tab went and had his hair cut. Daniel was the last one to go.

It was especially important that Daniel get his hair cut soon because he is scheduled to spend all day next Wednesday at the Catholic school where we hope the boys will attend next year. He will be spending a regular school day in one of the first-grade classrooms so that he can see what the place is like and so that the first grade teacher can evaluate him, academically and socially. We hope that it is a good sign that the school called to schedule this visit.

I mentioned the subject to Daniel yesterday afternoon when I picked him up at school. I hoped the prospect wouldn't upset him.

"On Wednesday next week, Dans, you won't go to school as usual. You'll be spending all day at another first grade class in the school you'll be going to next year."

He shrugged and said, "OK," and then put his headphones back on and turned on his Walkman. So much for worrying.

Of course, next Wednesday morning, he may have a completely different reaction.

While Daniel and Tab were out at the barber shop and running errands, Stephen, Matthew, and I worked on Valentines. I dredged up a tablet of construction paper and a package of paper lace doilies we had left over from last year. I cut paper hearts out of white paper and let the twins color them in with red magic markers. We pasted them on the doilies that we had glued to the construction paper, which I folded to form cards. Then they decorated them by pasting on metal hearts and applying heart stickers. We made cards for their godmothers, my aunt Rita, and my mother in Maine. They boys had a great time.

"Can we make more Valentines, tomorrow?" they begged.

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