Presenting Mr W's first bring home craft/artwork from kindy! (It's a bus) He very proudly walked it home to show Daddy.
And here are some more from his art & craft activities from last year:
All beautiful and such lovely memories .... but it drives me crazy with the clutter of this stuff. It has piled up after only one child starting kindy/school, imagine, IMAGINE after four children doing 13 years of schooling. The horror, the horror.....
Until I thought of, genius that I am (hmmm), photographing them so that I can, without mother guilt, THROW THEM ALL AWAY. Of course after a due period of time of appropriate display on the buffet or bulldog clipped to the shutter. And of course also done in the dark of night, on the night before bin pick up. (Imagine the outrage if it was discovered I'd done the deed, by a little one peering in the rubbish bin).
This genius revelation, can apply equally well to school projects such as this by T last year, on Cadel Evans and the Olympics.
And for memorable pieces of homework. Look at T's lovely writing in this invitation below.
I just wish so much I had applied my genius about eight years ago to photograph the Baby Shower cards for T. We had about fifty people (yes, I kid you not) and it was a huge affair and we got such lovely gifts and cards. Below is a picture of all the gifts we received for T from the baby shower.
And below is a picture of all the gifts we received for S from his birth .....
(oh how awful to be the fourth child)
(only joking of course - we did get some lovely gifts and best wishes and more importantly, cooked meals brought around)
(but not nearly as many gifts as one gets with a first child)
(or if the fourth child had been a girl, I imagine)
(but I'll stop now)
Also should have photographed all the lovely cards on all of their arrivals and birthdays.
As I deplore clutter with a passion, I have binned them all after a few years. Now I regret it. So from now on, anything memorable but inordinately space-occupying will be photographed and dissed.
Memories saved. Check. House decluttered. Check.
Oh I am so pleased with myself.
Labels: artwork, decluttering, household management
