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OneOfHisJewels -> I got to be a school mom today, sort of (4/9/2008 1:51:31 AM)
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For those of you who don't know, I'm single and without kids. Well there is a 6th grade girl in our church whose mom has been fairly ill the last couple of years, and sometimes doesn't have the kind of energy it takes to help her daughter with certain kinds of school assignments. Well she had to do this school project (she goes to a christian school, but that is really neither here nor there), where for their DARE program, they have to decorate a shoebox to put questions in. The 3 best shoeboxes in the class go to the teacher's lounge, and then they will pick an overall winner.
Well, I picked her up at 4:10, and we didn't get done 'til 9:00p.m., the dining room got trashed(although it's mostly picked up now), it was harder that I thought it would be, but we got a good end result, I thought. We made a little flap so that her opening is a door(and we made a pipe cleaner door handle), and we taped an old musical card of mine under there, so that when her box opens it plays music. There is a dog picture on the door. Around the door, she put hearts and the letters DARE in the 4 corners with rhinestones. On the edges, on the top, we put gold pipe cleaners like this:uuuuu(except imagine the tops connected), and then she put a red stripe under that. Oh, by the way, we covered the whole box in white before she added the other stuff.
I am exhausted, but I also feel so good about helping her, and enjoyed that little taste of motherhood, and I hope her box gets a chance of winning!
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