The assignment came home from school last week. It’s a typical first-grade timeline project: put pictures of yourself on this paper and write a story. Write YOUR story. Due on the 14th.
We (I) haven’t even started on it yet.
A large part of Daniel’s first year was lost in the Great Hard Drive Crash of 2004. The pictures that I *do* have were sent to me by his father after we split up. They are the pictures that mattered to him, the pictures HE picked out of the hundred pictures I would shoot each time we went out.
There are so many emotions tangled up in this project. Out of my three children, he is the only one to spend any time at all with his DNA contributor. He doesn’t remember those times, of course – but we do have pictures of them together.
The easy way out, of course, is to give him exactly what the project calls for: pictures of him from birth to age 7.
(Suck it up and go through the photos, Emily.)
He looks just like his Daddy.
Ah, yes, I remember this project in first grade for my kid! Question: why don’t you simply pull out all the photos and go through them together? Let your son decide which ones to choose. It could be very interesting for you…. to see which photos he is drawn to?
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Because I’m horrifyingly unorganized – my photos are on the hard drive (and backed up appropriately, after above mentioned HDdisaster), and that’s it. I need to go through them first and put copies in a separate folder for him to go through. While I quite proudly breastfed on demand, I don’t necessarily want pictures of him yanking my shirt up to nurse posted in the classroom.
this mama is so disorganized i completely forgot about sending in the pictures for this project (they did at school) and she had to draw them. (BAD, BAD, MAMA)
while i was apologizing profusely to her, she admitted she wasn’t the only one!
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The serious bad mama moment is that it takes Daniel so.incredibly.long to write something. He has to have it *perfect* and it took him the better part of three days to get all the pictures captioned.
But at least I’m going through the pictures now for his brother for next year LOL