Thursday, 7 April 2016

a welcome sign for mice...



Sometime this week I saw a post regarding a mom and her kids artwork and how in all honestly she disregards the majority of it every week, this post made me cringe, I don’t have anything against the mom or her decision, I cringed rather because I am quite the opposite and I am the mom who clings and hangs onto every picture, every stick drawing every family tree and noodle sculpture.

Seriously my fridge is covered my cupboards are overflowing I have files and crates a plenty, I know my kids will probably not care at some point in the future it won’t bother them if I throw half of it out and keep a few pieces that they may or may not remember but to me I don’t know I just can’t every piece is just so incredibly precious and marks a day in my kid’s lives, a day when they were happy or sad, a day when they discovered something new or just wanted to draw something they had seen, every piece is just so beautiful to me and thus I cling to them for dear life like a savage racoon to the last piece of food it has rofl.

My mom reprimands me she says I am a welcome sign for mice and that keeping these items are senseless but I cannot help it I just can’t, one day just maybe I will be able to pull these things out and show them to my grandchildren or even to my kids and say hey do you remember this, or this is one of my favorites, I will be able to show them just how special each and every moment was to me, each sweet and precious moment that in many ways is only evident and remembered in these drawings and artworks, so many of these are created at school or when I was not there and I just love to get a fleeting glimpse of their day, it’s wonderful to me and therefor I will continue to do so.

I will have to find a better storage solution but dammit I will continue to do so.

Do you keep your kids artworks, do keep some of them or none at all?

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