Me: “Want me to make a sign for your bedroom?”
Gkid: “YES!”
[brief pause while we use Google Fonts to find a font she likes]
Me: “So, you type your words in like this, and change it to a path. You can draw stuff like this. It uses lines instead of little dots, and these are nodes; they hold the lines, and these little handles let you shape the…”
Gkid: [reaches across and takes over my mouse] “Here, let me do it.”
Me: wanders off to look for something to do that doesn’t require my computer…
20 minutes later, give or take…
Gkid: “Okay, it’s ready.”
Me: [expecting to have to do major edits] “Ummm…hmmm. Looks good. You just need an outline for the sign. That one is the shape of the whole piece of wood. Here, use this tool to make a rectangle…that little dot makes the corners curved…”
Gkid: “I can do it.” Grabs the mouse
3 minutes later…
Gkid: “There, I’m done.”
Me: “It’s kind of off-center, want me to show you how to align…”
Gkid: “No, I want it like that. It’s STYLE.” She emphasizes the last word with a little head toss and pose reminiscent of someone twice her age…
Me: “…”
_The colors are her plan for how to paint it. I was instructed to just do the outlines. _
