This is an awkward light orange vuilding. One side is two stories, while the right side is one story and looks attached like a studio. To the left of the building is a tree.

Block-A-Day 38 – Angie, Lena, and Trevor

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They moved from an apartment in a city so when she rented this house and saw it had a little yard and an honest-to-goodness tree, she was overjoyed. Lena’s room looks out into the tree and she daydreams when she’s supposed to be doing her homework. She can hear her mom and a young pupil downstairs practicing “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” for the millionth time. As she tries to see the baby birds in a nest she’s been watching, she thinks about Trevor.

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This quilt block shows three tall buildings with pointy roofs. The middle lighter one is two stories tall. They are labeld above the dark doors with the letters A, B, and C.

Block-A-Day 27 – The Townhomes

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I found myself thinking that if people have to live very close together that might make them a little crazy. I tiptoed around and shushed my little ones all the time. It made me nervous.I knew I could hear everything my neighbors said and surely they could hear us. Now I live in a big house with my son, his wife, his mother-in-law, and four children under the age of 11.

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