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Mom needs to do a Christmas present project every year. We started this activity back when Daddy was still alive. Painting Christmas tree ornaments, pecan-resin Santas, counted cross-stitchery on pillows, embroidered linens … we’re talking about some truly great stuff here. One year Daddy made the most incredible stained glass village you’ve ever seen. I’ll start posting photos of some of the art work.

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This year, she is painting wooden trucks, trains, bulldozers and more. Small ones for the great-grandboys Emmett and Oliver Zane. Yes, Ollie has begun saying his entire name and mocks a signature quite well since he’s mastered circles, it really looks like OZ .
When Emmett and Ollie got a load of what Granma was doing, nothing would suit them but to sit down in her chair and brrrrrrmmmmmmm the trucks and trains. Emmett truly lost himself in the whole scenario — a bi-plane in one hand flew up over the train he held in the other. He became so engrossed in making engine noises, he started to drool. He’s 19 months old and gave up drooling a while back. Ollie flitted from what Emmett had in his hand to the skidder which he used to load Granma’s small paint tubes into a frozen dinner plastic tray she uses to mix colors. At this point, Mother decided the trucks should be transporting “gold nuggets” so we took the wrapper from a Gevalia chocolate bar and crumbled the foil into real gold.

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The world’s most amazing grandboys inspire us in many ways. It is demonstrably rewarding to watch Mother’s brain kick in and work the way it used to. She’s very creative but in her old age (90) she doesn’t trust her non-sequential side — she wants things in a logical progression because, I think, it has a calming effect– so we encourage a bit of randomness in the form of creativity to stir things up intellectually for her.
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In the MacEwan/Heinold household, it seems we never stop thinking — never stop adding to our little projects.
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