Scarlett is the Person of the Week at school. Last week she came home with a giant poster board and instructions to decorate it with photos or drawings which she would then present to all three Kindergarten classes.

I was excited about her poster. It made me think of the one I created for her first year of preschool. She was two years old and didn’t help with that one, since it was technically an assignment for the parents. I’ve always loved a good art project and I jumped right into it. I wrote her name across the top in bubble letters, decorated the sides with stickers of ladybugs and butterflies, two of her favorite things, added photos of the family, and wrote a few lines about her love of music, dancing, and cheese.

That seems so long ago. When this Person of the Week poster board came home, my first reaction was to wonder how we would get her name at the top so nicely now that I can’t write anymore. I even called my sister, who was in Chicago for a family wedding, to tell her that I wished she was home to help with this project. It was sometime around then that I recognized how severely I was missing the point. Read More>