Cocoa and Cardstock

Twenty children from SOS Children’s Village in Marzahn showed up yesterday, and within the hour the whole place had turned into a mild-chaos Christmas card factory. We made cards together on the Mac—the kids were considerably more confident with design software than I expected—then printed everything out so they could keep decorating at home. Cookies throughout. A lot of cocoa. Guided tours nobody had properly planned. Costume photo shoots that lasted longer than the actual card-making, which in retrospect was exactly as it should be.

By the end I’d lost track of who was supposed to be doing something good for whom. Those kinds of afternoons have a way of doing that.