Kindergarten Lunch

continues to be a high point of the week.

of sewing machines and fish

Give a man a fish; 

you have fed him for today. 

Teach a man to fish; 

and you have fed him for a lifetime

I do hang on to things...

except money, I guess.
Thanks, and a shout-out to my sister, who's skill of getting rid of stuff turns into my skill of collecting stuff.
We have enough Halloween costumes to dress a full-on kindergarten parade.
If you could live on dress-ups when a disaster struck, we'd be keeping the whole neighborhood alive.
Minutes before Morning Boy left for school, he was still deciding what to wear.
Thankfully, the Dracula cape (re-purposed witch dress) I stayed up too late sewing ended up being his final pick.  (Altho' if I could have chosen, he would have gone as Chef Boy-ar-dee!)
Off to school they all went this morning.
With my piano money in their pockets...
Fee for cap and gown.
Fee for yearbook blurb.
Fees for yearbooks.
Speaking of yearbooks, Enrique is in the Senior section this year.
How'd that happen?
Seems like yesterday we were off picnic-ing in the woods, celebrating his three short weeks in our family.

So that brings me back to my propensity to keep things far longer than I should.

See that lovely striped shirt I'm wearing?

Yup.  You've seen it before.

He's a keeper.

But what about his kindergarten photo?

I can almost hear the conversation.

Photographer:  "smile!"

MB: [smiles]

Photographer: "now show me some teeth."

MB: [gives him some teeth action]

Photographer: [click] "next."

We might be doing some retakes... 

but then I remember MY kindergarten photo.

So mothering is also about deciding which captured moments to hold on to.

(Mom?...)

Did you ever see...

a PIG in a WIG?

(I love kindergarten art!)