A special package arrived for D while we were off Saturday enjoying the Free Museum Day sponsored by the Smithsonian. Inside the box was something D purchased with her birthday money.
Chain mail! Here she is newly-knighted. She made that sword and her father cut the kite shield for her.
It's a good thing she is so strong; I had a hard time lifting the box of chain mail and I can't imagine wearing it around. Needless to say, she is the envy of all the neighborhood boys. I say boys only because it seems all the girls are too busy making googly-eyes at the boys. When did girls become so boring?
You would not believe how much research D did before choosing this item. Such a good little historian - she makes her mother proud. She's been living and breathing Anglo-Saxons and Normans.
We bought her a diorama kit from Michael's for her birthday for her tiny toy Saxons, which she also bought with her birthday money, and she has been working on it, but she won't let me photograph it 'til she's done.
Who else but my daughter would buy chain mail with her birthday money? I would have just bought books when I was fourteen. It must be that she's been raised to think outside the box. I would have read about it, but she lives it.
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