Love Sarah

It’s Valentine’s Day and I have to mark it with something special for my girly-whirl. Of course, Max will be appropriately celebrated too. I bought them both cards, and for Sarah, a little balloon from Five Below, her favorite store, that says “I Love You.” 

If it were a normal V-Day, we would meet Sarah’s bus and help her look at her valentines from her school party and her candy and other treats. She would not eat the candy. She had not wanted to eat by mouth in the last couple of years since getting the feeding tube at age 10; she gradually lost any urge to eat by mouth. But she liked piling up all the candy in her lap and seeing it and going through it. Max and I would sneak a few pieces of candy, and she would frown. Later, after she went to bed, we would eat more. Bad parents! 

Of course, she always had a valentine for us. I have two of them hanging up in my study. I’m posting another one I particularly like. I know that her artistic efforts reflect the work of her aide and her teachers, but there’s a lot of her in them as well, I think.