A New Pack

Emily loves to color. She has crayons, colored pencils and markers which are almost all dried out because she won't put the caps back on and I refuse to do it. When Grammie was here, they sat down at the table to color some Thanksgiving pictures. Grammie was looking for a purple crayon. We have a container that has about 100 crayons, but do you believe not one was purple? Then, I got to really looking at them. The majority of the crayons were blue, green, red and yellow and they said "Olive Garden" or "Red Robin" on the side.

I was at the store the other day and I picked her up a brand new pack of 96 Crayola's with the sharpener built in. I was saving it for Christmas. Today she wanted to color and I couldn't even find the crayon container. I caved. She was so thrilled to see all the colors. I felt like I was depriving her of the joy of knowing colors like vivid tangerine and robin's egg blue.

I imagine she'll live.


Choices, choices, choices...


We all remember the smell of a new box of Crayola's. Emily is just like her Dad and smells everything. It was the first thing she did when she took one out of the box.


I told her how special these new crayons are and that we need to take care of them. I walked in 10 minutes later and steel blue metallic was broken in the pencil sharpener and she tried to put 20 crayons in a box that clearly only holds 16.

Maybe I should've just went to Olive Garden again.