My older brothers had a bunk bed, my little brother had his own bed and my sister and I shared a queen-sized bed.
We also shared countless hours of strange bedtime rituals: she would put on her school uniform (white blouse and brown plaid jumper) and pull her nightgown over it — that was for early morning efficiency… I would skip the uniform step and go right to the nightgown.
I was so slow!
She would coat her arms in Elmer’s Glue,

I would dress and redress Raggedy Ann.
I don’t know if she shared my fear of the monster under the bed.
No, what am I saying? She did not. In fact, she created the fear!
Siblings can be so cruel.
She waited.







PS: I wrote this blog post on my iPhone because I despise easy things.
And had our likenesses sculpted out of butter.
but not too busy to document some pretty fascinating activity:
No??
Elves!
Every night, I go peaceably to bed, leave all my cares to Heaven, and soon fall asleep — but not before I aggressively ruminate on an idea for a new card. While I sleep, the elves get to work and when I wake up, the new card is done!
THANK THEM.


and yoga (just kidding). Number ten is turtle-hunting.
Wouldn’t you love to get this card with a
Yeehaw!!
Jen is DUCKing.
Lesson??
Let’s do this, indeed.