Howard spent his birthday gift card on something he’d wanted for a really long time: a bow and arrow set. And, so, of course, during this very slow, not-much-to-do-anyway month of December, I dropped everything that afternoon and made him a monogrammed quiver out of felt to hold his arrows. Actually, I really didn’t have anything else important to do, and I had all of the supplies on hand, so I was happy to do it. Every 20 seconds, Howie asked me, “Mom, is my quiver done?” To which I said, “Howie, I’m sewing it from scratch! Can I have at least 20 minutes?”
Then, when Jason Larsen got home, he was showing Howie how to put the arrows in the built-in storage slots on the bow. I said, incredulously, “Really? That bow came with built-in storage?! I made him a quiver!”