I went to First Friday downtown last night to peddle mehindi. It was successful in that Windy was good company and the atmosphere was relaxing, but not successful in that I didn’t convince many people to get henna done. Also, I’d brought a lantern, but the children must have left it on all night because the battery was completely dead. Hence, I could barely see what I was doing.
Today I have lots and lots of henna leftover, so I did designs on my daughters’ backs. They have no patience. They smeared them in ten minutes and pestered me with ‘is it done yet?’ after twenty. I just gave them a palette knife to scrape the henna off. The design won’t last very long, but that’s not really the point. The point for me is that I get to do something larger and more elaborate, and the point for them is that mommy pays attention to them.
