Son, love you forever.
Posted by Michelle on May 24th, 2010 . Filed under: Uncategorized .Happy Monday, Dolls!
I hope you all had a fantastic weekend. It was cold here in the 208 – even snowed on Saturday…what?! I sure hope we all get some nice spring weather soon. Anyway – I’ve got to tell you about my son…
So the kids have been counting down the days ’til school gets out. Every morning – it’s 30 days ’til the last day of school, it’s 29 days ’til the last day of school…. When it was 25 days ’til the last day of school suddenly it was 24 days left – on that same day. That’s because due to budget cuts the school district is cutting school short by 1 day. It’ll save them $65,000 in transportation fees and whatever else. So that night, my son – he’s in 2nd grade – asks me how they could do that…and why they had to. Without bashing anyone, I explained about how the schools get money from the government (local, state, federal), how programs get cut, where money goes – highways, police service, schools, teacher pay, etc. I explained that in addition to the shortage of 1 day, the teachers are taking a pay cut next year too. He was very pensive….and then asked if he could give the school the money he got for his First Communion – it was about $20. I thought that was really kind and generous of him – $20 is a lot to a 7-year old.
Later that evening we were talking about our garage sale. My son asked if we could give our garage sale money to the school. I told him I didn’t know how much we’d make, what if it was only $20? So we negotiated and decided that he would give the school half of our garage sale money, and if his First Communion money was more, he would use that. We had our sale on Saturday and he is so excited to be taking his school principal a little envelope with $143.25 in it! Definitely one of those proud mom moments.
So here’s a little card I made for my son – I just love his sweet spirit to pieces…and forever. I’ve got a base of Smokey Shadow, with patterened paper and a die cut from October Afternoon, some fun buttons, ribbon and sentiment from Papertrey Ink and a cute lil’ pin from Fancy Pants.
Cheers to a new week!
May 24th, 2010 at 4:04 am
As a public school teacher whose county is in the midst of "cutting the fat" from the budget this just warms my heart. I teared up when I read this- THAT is a child who values his education. We turned down a freeze on our step raise after much deliberation. The media is now making us out to be the bad guys- but they don't know the whole story as to what the ramifications would be if we voted to freeze. I needed this this morning!
May 24th, 2010 at 4:23 am
Beautiful card, but an even more beautiful story. I know how proud you must be!
May 24th, 2010 at 4:33 am
Can I just tell you that your sone made me cry…isn't is amazing how kids can sense the issues and try to fix them with such simplicity? Can't we all do that? For Abby's birthday she is wanting to give teddy bears to the sheriffs department so that other kids can have one that are haveing "a bad day." I couldn't believe it! Have a great day with that amazing son of yours!
May 24th, 2010 at 8:11 am
I love your card, but aw, love your PRECIOUS SON even more! How proud a mama you must be! He has such a pure, kind heart. Our gov't cut 17 instruction days this year to help fix the budget and wants to cut another 17 next school year. It's crazy. Our kids should not be the ones to pay. Here's hoping that people like your son run our gov't in the future! Give him a big ole hug from me!
May 24th, 2010 at 11:46 am
Wow, that is really sweet of him. What a generous thing to want to do! I can just picture how the "missing day" conversation would have gone in our house. Good for him!
May 24th, 2010 at 6:57 pm
I love your card and I loved your story. What a sweet and thoughtful son you have!
May 24th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Seriously, that is so SWEET! Oh my goodness, you should be a proud mama!!! I just want to give him a big hug right now:) You are doing something right, Michelle! Your card is adorable. I love the vintage boy and all the buttons:)
May 25th, 2010 at 12:03 am
Awesome sons come from awesome moms. That must've been some yard sale – way to go!
May 25th, 2010 at 11:37 am
Your son sounds like a real sweetheart, Michelle!!! Love the card too!
May 25th, 2010 at 11:42 am
Wow that is great!
May 25th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
What a precious story, Michelle. Your son is a treasure!