Monday last week David announced that he had forgotten to tell us Friday, but he needed a staff, an onyx, a headdress, brown clothes with green spots, gold bracelets, and green hair spray for the Egyptian God wax museum, and he needed them by tomorrow. Have I mentioned that I've been working a lot? I had five hours of work scheduled for Monday and another hour of transportation time.

He had the staff.

Those of you who are my age and Jewish will remember that thin gold bracelets were the Bat Mitzvah gift du jour in our day. So, I happened to have eight gold bracelets in a box in my underwear drawer. Never worn. I was happy to have him borrow them.

Before school, John helped David cut an onyx out of cardboard and spray paint it. That spray paint we got for painting figurines has continually come in handy for school projects.

On the way to work, I drove to Fred Meyer and bought green felt. On the way home from work, I went to Value Village and bought a brown shirt and some brown pants. Then I left David a note with directions because a friend was in charge of picking him up from school while I went back to work. I also threw myself on the mercy of Facebook and found a friend who had green hair dye and drove to her house that night.

David did his part. He cut out diamonds and hot glued them on the clothes. He made himself a headdress out of cardboard, and he was very agreeable and thankful about it all.

I went to visit the wax museum at the end of the week, and he did a fine job. The wax museum project, by the way, is when the kids pretend to be a wax statue and when someone pushes their button (which he also made), they recite information about themselves. David has his notes handy, but he was able to give his recitation without looking at him, with some expression, and not too fast. I have it on tape for any interested grandparents. He was Gnut, the God of the earth.

P.S. The day after I made three extra trips, I got a letter from the teacher saying they should just make their costumes from stuff around the house.