Back to School Night is always an interesting experience. I remember my mom telling me that she would always go to Seth’s classes and send my dad to Shem’s classes. I get it. But unfortunately, since I am the one doing homework, communicating with the teachers, etc. Micah gets to go to Navy’s class (where they sing her praises and everything she is already showing off from the beginning of school, looks like masterpieces on display), and I have to go to Scout’s classes…where I get more and more humiliated at every turn. The big problem is, that Scout knows how humiliating it is to me, and he takes a bit of pride in doing it. Then I laugh, because I think it’s kind of funny. Hence the whole problem.
This year…the first thing I saw, was an art project the class had done. I looked for Scout’s, and almost fell over when I saw that he had really tried hard to do a good job.
Pretty decent.
I perused further and then saw these great paragraphs written by the class.
I looked all over for Scout’s, and found it on the very bottom row next to the floor.
There is the Scout I know and love. Among every other child’s well-written paragraphs, I saw, “This year I have the most awesome teachers. There so nice, this year is going to be fun. P.S. I’m awesome.” Please note: it was written in chicken scratch.
Notice his laughing in the picture they took of him. This kid is up to his old tricks.
Then on everyone’s ddesk, everyone wrote a loving note to their parents. Mine read, “Dear Mom, Please leave me 20 dollars. By the way Geff Geff.” (Some dumb new slang)
It’s tradition that I leave my kids a few dollars to buy something fun at lunch.
So I responded with a dollar and arote, “Dear Scout, I was going to leave you 20 dollars until I realized that you have not done one day of your homework. So here is one measly dollar…AND YOU SHOULD BE GRATEFUL YOU GET ANYTHING! Love, Mom.”
Honestly…if I wasn’t a stickler for tradition, I would have left him nothing. I actually regret not leaving him a penny.
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The report back from Navy’s class was phenomenal. Micah left her $5, and a really cute note. But since it was Micah, we don’t have any photos of it.
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Then, for the first time ever, we got to go to Dash’s back to school night. It was fun and exciting to see all that is in store for him this year. He did great work that was on display. We left him a note as well, and told him something to the effect, “Dash…watch your older sister, and do everything just like her!”
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Another year down.
And remind me???
Do I have to go to back to school nights in Junior High?
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