I have been given assignments since my children were in kindergarten. Usually they are in the form of having to look for something. Usually some impossible item that I have to spend hours unearthing.
I can remember clearly and vividly having two of my children look at me at 5 minutes until 7:00 in the morning and tell me that they needed a Photo Time Line. TODAY. I can remember zooming through the house and finding the back side of a poster board yard sale sign and dragging out photo albums and placing ORIGINAL copies of my child on them (knowing that when the time line poster board came back home if it EVER made it back home that the photos would be ripped torn and damaged by many hands that would pull and pry as the poster board was left unguarded in the school hall way.) I would scribble in their forged handwriting guessed dates that I hoped were close enough.... before running out the door praying we could make it to school on time.
This morning I spent many hours going though my million+ photos looking for a photo of my oldest son... who is now age 16 1/2 on his very first day of school about 10 and a half years ago... Really?
I am an avid scraper/scrapbooker and I strive to be organized in life some what... however my photo organization spans many many forms. I have old school hard copy photos from 1940's of ancestors- all the way up to 59 photos I snapped on my cell phone just yesterday at my other sons orchestra gig with Mark Wood. In the time I have been married I have been though 6 cameras and several cell phones. I have photos printed photos on disc I have photos on floppy and I don't even have a computer that will take a floppy any more. I have professional 8x10's and even photo stickers someplace my sister in law gave me. I have at LEAST 12 detailed scrapbooks full of photos. I have about 12 or so photo albums full of photos. I have mass photos in online albums... Some on Google some on snap fish... some on Kodak... I could probably go on.
I ask you dear teacher... no wait let me guess... you have no children of your own... your photos from child hood amount to a few you have in a photo album and some in a shoe box... the rest you have online... Lucky you yourself do actually own on photo of you starting your first day of school since your dear mother gave it to you as a graduation gift framed... or some thoughtful Aunt gave it to you when you embarked on your first teaching job.... She always knew you would be a teacher.
I wonder Dear Teacher is this a test for the parent or merely one of your brilliant ideas? I found it. I spent this cold clear crisp Sunday morning dragging out loads of photos and going through tons of envelopes, but I found it. Will you factor this into my child's grade? The fact that I took a hours to find something that you will forget with in 5 minutes after you looked at it.
Remember how you said that when you had kids your children were going to be this and that? And when you are a parent are NEVER going to forget to sign your child's agenda? That your child was never going to have late or missing assignments? I hope that you have children in a rapid fire succession. I hope that one day you wake up and have had a bad dream that you forgot to take that first day photo... or you realize that you are out of batteries... and your cell phone is dead.
