As I was cleaning up in my bedroom this afternoon, I happened on a stack of boxes that had been shoved in the corner. I’d forgotten what was in them so I opened them up – and then wished I hadn’t.
One of them was full of all the school work that my children brought home at the end of the year last year.
The reason it is sitting in that box is because though my first instinct was simply to pitch it all the minute it came home, I couldn’t quite bring myself to toss it out in front of them. After all, what sort of message would that send them about school work? So I put it away and thought that at some point I’d go through it and see if there were any priceless gems that I could keep as a representative sample of their work that year. That time has come – because next month, another pile will come home.
The only question that remains is should I actually open the box and look at each item, or should I just save myself some time and assume that there is nothing worth keeping in the mix and heave the whole box into the trash sight unseen. What would you do?
Have a look. We forget very quickly how much our children grow.
by anny cook May 21st, 2009 at 10:55 am