origami

Its the way you think about things. Its your measurements and use of levels. Its how I just eyeball things and use shoes and books as hammers.Your symmetrical and love puzzles, I'm scattered and love collages and overlapping.
Your all science, Im blind faith and magic (with a little vampire love thrown in).

It was two weekends ago when your parents held a family bbq that really reminded me of how much I love our differences, and how much I think we compliment one another.

Your mom bought an origami kit for your cousins to play with when they came over. But you couldn't resist tearing it open and getting started hours before they arrived. You said it was because you just wanted to practice so if they needed any help you knew what to do... We all knew it was really because you can't resist a puzzle... You started with a simple (so you said) crane (mine was more Lochness monster than elegant crane, but i was all "whattevvss I dooo what I wannt") Then you moved onto the paper cube, it took you few tries and a couple youtube vids but you finally did it, and it was beautiful.
The girls loved following your instructions and making the little paper animals but I loved watching you patiently show them the folds and where they went wrong, and what to do to make it work. It made me think that sometimes its the simplicity and tiny folds that really can make something wonderful out of the boring and mundane and all you need is a little patience and a knack for not getting paper cuts.

So although I don't always have the patience or the knack for solving puzzles, it doesn't matter because you do :) And I just wanted to say thank you for loving all my crazy outside the line scribbles, because I couldn't live without your origami skills.Photo cred goes to Matts mom, Carmel!

xxx
JAD