Last week, my sister went to a conference with Piper’s preschool teacher. Glowing reports all around. How warm she is. How lively she is. How generous she is.
Then the teacher told the story of what happened on Valentine’s Day.
Apparently, in the days leading up to Valentine’s, the kids were given the option to create handmade cards at the craft station during free time. Piper was over there constantly, exclusively. She didn’t play; she made cards. For everyone. All the kids. Her teachers. She already HAD store-bought cards to pass out, and still, she made more. But that’s Piper. She just LOVES art. She gets easily bored with toys, but never, EVER, with drawing and doodling and scribbling and painting.
So that’s what she did. While the other kids played around her, Piper made her cards.
The teacher reached into her bag and pulled out her card from Piper.
It was a card she’d selected from a stash of blank cards. It had a picture on the front, but Piper had liberally decorated the inside. She’d also included a special message, carefully copying the lettering she had in front of her.
Here is what the card said:
“wash
able cra
yola markers
love, piper”
That kid.
That is literally the most touching Valentine’s Day message EVER!!
I know! I can’t decide whether to laugh or cry when I think about it. I just do both.
Luckily, tears are washable. Just like Crayolas.
Both good inventions.
LOL. Aw…
What’s not to love? What a treasure she is…
Ya know, Tracey, I was just about to send you an email complaining that I came to read over your blog expecting at lease a single, if not double dose of Piper, and finding none. That was until I hit the 10th log of your blog and found “Piper’s Valentine”. Now that I got my Piper fix, I can resume my day.
Your sister (?) should only know that out here in the Netherlands of cyberspace sits a cyber-auntie Sherril just waiting to hear the latest. cutest remark coming from the mouth of her Piper. You are lucky to be the REAL AUNT Tracey and she is lucky to be the Mommy!
Sherril