I think I'll frame the one of forsythia on a pale blue background. And then I'll pour myself a stiff drink and think about the next twelve years.
Onward, sigh.
22 June 2009
End of the Year
The school year is winding down. Today, Miss M. brought home her art portfolio, all the best works from the whole year, the ones that hung on the walls of the classroom and outside in the hallway. She was beyond proud - "when we get home, I'm going to spread them out all over and show them to you, but Daddy, one of them has glitter". And when we got home, we spread them out all over and she told us all about them.
I think I'll frame the one of forsythia on a pale blue background. And then I'll pour myself a stiff drink and think about the next twelve years.
Onward, sigh.
I think I'll frame the one of forsythia on a pale blue background. And then I'll pour myself a stiff drink and think about the next twelve years.
Onward, sigh.
So many of these are frameworthy, but the sad clown scares me.
ReplyDeleteI love how pleased she is.
Going through our folder made me weepy, and I'm not a weepy gal. At the end-of-the-year performance there was a photo montage of all the kindergartners, with music. I nearly sobbed.
ReplyDeleteIt is an amazing year of transformation, isn't it? I can't imagine what the next one will hold.
Art is a wonderful thing.
ReplyDeleteMy son will be in 3rd grade this year. I cannot tell you how much this ages me to think about.
ReplyDeleteI'll buy you a drink come July.
I agree that the clown is creepy, but overall, her work is great. She must have a very good teacher, too. (I consider myself an expert in Kindergarten art, as I was the teacher's assistant when my daughter was in K and the disparity in abilities among her classmates was a real eye-opener.)
ReplyDeleteIt's wonderful when the kids art work is frame worthy. Well, it ALL is, but the question is whether it's wall worthy -- LOL!
ReplyDeleteI love them all! And the time just kind of snowballs faster and faster.
ReplyDeleteWe got the art portfolio sent home today too. So bittersweet, the end of the school year.
ReplyDeleteI love how proud she looks in that picture!
It's definitely a bittersweet time of the year.
ReplyDeleteShe's adorable - and quite the artist!
Now you're all sweet and teary and I swore tonight when I emptied another load of precious product (crap) from my kid's school. Just how much stuff am I supposed to house? Our fridge is only so big!
ReplyDeleteBut then those are pretty pieces she has. Geesh. That's a sad clown.
That's a wonderful idea she had, to spread them all out like that (and of course to be photographed with them). I haven't even looked at the stack that came home yet--I feel I need to devote hours to the task!
ReplyDeleteI love the forsythia one too--beautiful.
i like the one with the squares
ReplyDeletea gallery worth, for sure.
ReplyDeletetoday MQ was using her new bathtub markers, and then had to show off her "museum" of artwork. I loved it.
LOL. I framed one per year. The rest are neatly stacked in their Rubbermaid bins. Do you think they'll want to take them to school with them this Fall? Me neither....
ReplyDeleteWhich was harder; the first day of kindergarten, or the last?
ReplyDeleteI plan to avoid both by never allowing my child to leave.
;)
They're impressive--and apparently she already knows that clowns are scary!
ReplyDeleteToday is SC's last day of middle school. I'm thinking--just 4 years left.
And if I wasn't working, I just might join you in that drink :D
I'm diggin' the mondrian. Tell the child I said so.
ReplyDeleteThose are good!
ReplyDeleteWhat an artiste! Altho...that clown scares me!
ReplyDeletei think you should frame the photo. it takes my breath, this moment captured, all that joy and pride and the art that she will not remember, someday.
ReplyDeleteDrink, but don't think too much! Just enjoy the present.
ReplyDeletethis reminds me of a space-saving idea a friend of mine had... she takes photos of all her children's artwork, because she can't possibly keep every piece, but she can easily keep photos of every piece.
ReplyDeletenice work, mir!
I enlarged the photo to get abetter look and that pale blue one (in the upper right) is gorgeous
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