Kind
Sayler is kind. It's the kind of thing that could go unnoticed rather easily... Behind her boisterous confidence and cool shoulder shrugs- she sometimes projects a kind of 'unaffectedness' common in 5 year old children. But nothing goes unnoticed by her. Last week she asked to borrow my nice stationary- the set I had *just bought from Target that I immediately loved. I sighed heavily, longingly looking at the adorable cardstock and envelop that I would not get back, quietly calculating who I would have to forgo sending a card to from the pile. But I relented, because it's Sayler. Smooth, slick, sugary, spicy Sayler. She proceeded to write an assortment of sight words on her card. "Amarillo"... "Rojo"... "Esta".... She added a few hearts- the skinny tall hearts that are not chunky and round as mine were as a child. The reduced fat hearts... The paleo-hearts... The Atkins hearts... She said she was going to give it to 'Emma'- a g...