Bursting With Cheesy Pride
Today marked the first day of a new school year for most kids in the Kansas City area. Lulu had no idea, since she goes to daycare year round, but today we noticed the yellow school buses were back in action and there were a ton of new kids in her preschool class. Last week, Lu’s teacher pulled me aside to tell me that Lucy had been chosen to be the week’s “Star Student,” and she needed to make a poster all about herself to share with the class. Now, being a working parent, this is one of the things you dread. Not only is my level of creativity lower than every other parent I know, I never can find the time to just sit down and do a craft or project with Lu. Plus, my handwriting is atrocious. For reals.
So in what might be seen as a total cop out, I told her she could look through all of our pictures and pick out the ones she’d like to share, and we would glue them to her poster. Here’s a parenting tip for all of you: Don’t do what I did. She wanted every single picture that was ever taken of her in the history of the world. Plus 300 more. Then we had a slight mental breakdown when ten gazillion photos would not fit on to said piece of poster board. Gah.
But in the end, Lu seemed pretty happy with what we did. She picked out pictures of her family, and almost everyone was included. Aunts and uncles and cousins and godparents and grandparents and great-grandparents. Even the dog. And you should have seen her face when she presented it to her teacher this morning.
Cheesy grins all around.
I think it’s perfect! You don’t ever give yourself enough credit.
Ditto to that. You should see my craft projects – you look like martha frickin stewrt man!
She should ALWAYS be the star student, don’t they know who she is!?! What kind of school are you sending her to! 😉 love the poster, glad to be a part of it :):):)