Late One Summer Evening...

Lil Miss M asked if she could stay up later than usual to work on her "Summer Masterpiece" last night.  She explained she has an idea to collect things all summer and add them to one big work of art.  She rattled off all kinds of things she wants to collect, from shells to buttons and ribbons to magazine clippings.  She has plans for glitter and decoupage and even a some yarn.

So...tonight rather than enforcing bedtime, she and I sat at the table together, armed with a sketch book, pencils, cookies and milk, and conspired until well after midnight about this wonderful work she is going to make.  Perhaps someday, when she is grown, she will look back on this summer night and remember how we stayed up past bedtime and giggled together while making grand plans for the summer.

Time for bed Lady-Bug...sweet dreams...I love you!

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