making everything diamond

Written by Cathoel Jorss, published 11 years ago

Two boys scribbling either end of the dinner table. “What are you drawing?” 6yo: “It’s a diamond. With a rainbow inside it.” 4yo: “This is a machine for making everything dead.”

Their mother, breastfeeding, laughs telling us how the 6yo asked her could they play “jumping over Amelia on the couch.” Amelia is three weeks old. She was wrapped and asleep and her brother said earnestly, “It’s okay Mummy. We’re not going to jump on top of her.”