Hannasaurus rex……

A few years ago, I made a piece of art that Hanna has saved in her “over-stuffed bag of questionable colouring projects” bag. The girls were reviewing the treasures last night and Ellie discovered a page entitled; “Hannasaurus rex” in crayola washables, by Mommy.

Ellie was outraged there was no Elliesaurus rex and I had to explain the Hannasaurus was made in a land before her time. She does not handle the idea of a world that existed before her. Mostly because it reminds her that Hanna was the first to do everything and also, she missed out on ever seeing a real dinosaur. The only way to make things right was to get drawing.

“You can use my DORA markers but dinosaurs were “stinct” before there were DORA markers.” We reviewed our options and agreed the Dora markers would be better suited to the task than me etching the Elliesaurus in stone.

The Elliesaurus looked a lot more like a Candysaurus before we were done as Ellie was the creative director, instructing me to draw the lollipop tail, the bubble gum pockets on her dress and high heels, a must. If it doesn’t have “fringy fringe” it simply won’t do.

I know it will all end up in the recycling but I get into loads of trouble for that.

Yesterday, Hanna walked in the door, I unpacked her school bag, reviewed her finished take-home pages and immediately buried them under a crushed box in the recycling. It’s that one, pink corner of the paper that does me in every time. She spotted it almost immediately, covered in cans and yelled, “How did my math sheet get in here?”

Stunned, “I have no idea.” (my usual response, firm and with conviction) “It must have fallen out of your bag?”

Am I supposed to keep every piece of paper that comes into this house? I think the random bag of colouring projects should have taught the girls a lesson in hoarding. Half of the twelve thousand, construction paper masterpieces were blank or had one rogue crayon mark and that was because it had leaked through the real art, nowhere to be found in our bag of gems, probably because it was recycled.

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