Dianne and Auni made popcorn balls tonight. I was dreading the experience even though I did not have to participate. Dianne just whipped them right up. I supervised the pop corn popping. I was expecting a risk prone agenda of boiling Karol syrup till it was caloric napalm. But Dianne pulled a fast one, just some melted butter and a package of bone jellie(jello) heated and running then poured over the popcorn and stirred. Next, the popcorn was molded into balls and ready to eat. The whole operation from start to finish( including the popping process) took less then 30 minutes. The balls were placed into bags and distributed to favorite neighbors.
Auni is five and I think she is shy. Auni is here nearly every weekend for at least one night. In ll that time she has never really made friends with any other girls her age. Kayla, who lives across the street is a couple of years older then Auni and Auni worships Kayla. But alas Kayla just does not have time for Auni. Recently a family of girls has moved into two doors down—there seems to be four to five girls running up and down the sidewalk lately. Such was the case tonight when Auni and Dianne took the popcorn balls to the neighbors. The littler girl gaggle notices and before long Auni was running up and down the sidewalk with the other girls—each one had a big pink popcorn ball—Auni had currency and she was spending. They played till it was to dark and all kids had to come in and Auni did not seem quite sdo lonely.
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