Most days my lone homeschool student shows up with a smile on her face and a hop in her step. There was one morning recently, however, that the proverbial "wrong side of bed" attitude arrived instead. The main factor seemed to center on the cute new denim jumper. Apparently it was extremely irritating to wear. Instead of happy hopping there were tears that morning.
I was running behind that morning and, as is the privilege of homeschooling, was still in my jammies. I suggested to Natale that I too could wear a denim jumper and we could be twins. No sooner were the words out of my mouth when the thought hopped into my head....Ruby the Copycat! I quickly shared my idea with Natale and she was off to create flowers, modeled after the flowers on her dress, to add to my jumper.
Ruby is a much loved book from my years in public school. It is one of the books I never tire of reading. In the book Ruby, who is good at hopping, wants to be like Angela. She copies everything Angela does including pinning painted flowers to a sweater to make it match Angela's. You can guess where this is going...for the remainder of the day I wore hand-colored flowers pinned to my jumper. Natale's jumper was no longer uncomfortable and it turned out to be a hoppy day.
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