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During previous family holidays over the past decade, my cousin's three daughters were often fascinated when they discovered that I could draw. So, when Easter dinner or Thanksgiving supper are winding down and the kitchen table has been cleared off, I end up teaching beginners' drawing lessons and taking requests such as, "Can you draw my Hello Kitty t-shirt?".

Last year, one of these three kids actually sent me one of HER OWN drawings, and I was honored at how my ability to draw was forming noticeable bonds to the next generation of the family tree. (I don't have any kids of my own.)

So, for Christmas 2017, I decided that instead of me bumbling through the all-pink Barbie aisle and wondering which toys each child liked, I decided to go another route entirely. Namely, I grabbed a pencil, looked at their autumn school photographs, sketched their likenesses in an evening, and digitally made the three sisters into an arrangement that any U.S. schoolkid recognizes: the traffic light. :-) Then I emailed the finished image to my cousin for her to reveal to them on Christmas Day. 
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MandiLoriAnn's avatar
So very cool --  as someone who has received your art in the past as gifts, I can safely say I'm sure it was well received.  (My first present from Puppetcancer was a colored pencil portrait of me, based on a photo from 2012.  That was my birthday present I received in 2013, just days before we started dating.  GREAT present, I treasure it to this day.)

The fact you and I don't and most likely won't be parents, at least when it comes to you, is kind of sad.  You'd be an amazing father; as for me as a mother, well...  let's say if our kids asked me for a flame thrower, Mommy Mandi would be all, "of course you can have a flame thrower, Baby!  The thing is, you have to share it with Mommy...  now let's go set the neighbors' lawn on fire!  ...  and don't tell Daddy, okay?"  Like Daddy wouldn't know immediately why the neighbors' shrubs were all piles of ash and soot.  He'd have to come home and scold the KIDS for not watching MOMMY, and which one of you was dumb enough to give her something that THROWS FIRE?  We don't trust Mommy with Velcro and you gave her a FLAME THROWER?  Go to your room and think about what you've done.
 
Joking aside, you would be an amazing dad.  (As for me as mother material, well...)  You'd be the type of dad to help the kids with their math homework, because if they went to Mommy with it, she'd just look at it and ask, "since when did they start putting letters in it?"  I think you'd raise some seriously awesome, well adjusted children, despite the bad influence of their mother.  It would be cute to see little Johns and Mandis running around; the only thing I can tell you about those kids, if you have them with me, they're all coming out with hair as red as their mother's.  You don't get Pope blood and have any hair color other than red.  That's a guaranteed genetic intrusion, but otherwise, I'd hope they'd have their father's genes with as few interruptions from their mother's DNA as possible. 


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