“I just want to go to Hobby Lobby. It’ll just take like five seconds.”<\/p>\n
I fixed my son with the steely dad glare of truth. I’d heard the “it’ll just take like five seconds” line before, but from his older brother.<\/p>\n
“Da-ad,” he said. “It’s for Mom!”<\/p>\n
It was. We were heading out to shop for her birthday present. The problem was that we had limited time, and a trip Hobby Lobby could easily eat up all that time.<\/p>\n
“Okay. Get in the car. We have to go fast.”<\/p>\n
We hightailed it to Hobby Lobby, then jogged to the bead section, where he “just wanted to get a few beads.”<\/p>\n
The bead section, it turned out, was two aisles, filled with every kind of bead you can imagine.<\/p>\n
I stared at it, more than a little stunned. Who was buying all these beads?<\/p>\n
“Okay,” he said. “Now I’m going to pick out just the right ones.”<\/p>\n
“What are you doing, again?” I asked.<\/p>\n
“I’m making her a necklace, and I have to pick out just the right beads.” He paused, his eyes going up and down the display of beads. “Actually, this could take some time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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