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I’m sure there’s some point in my life that I’ve looked at a child’s artwork on a peers desk and thought, “how strangely odd that they would put that particular piece of art on their desk.” Now, with children of my own, I completely understand.
Sofi and Natalie have begun taking an art “class” at the local community center and this week it involved making household decorations with paper, glue, rice, pretzels and a variety of other objects. I don’t get to go to these classes so I can’t watch the process involved - although, Natalie did tell me that she ate some of the pretzels on her holiday pretzel wreath (hmmm… before they were painted, I hope?) - but I do try and make a very big deal about what they’ve brought home.
This week there was even enough artwork that I offered to bring a rice and bean snowman in with me to the office so that I could put it on my desk. The girls agreed and I just pinned it where I could see it, to the right of my computer, and I’ve now realized why people put their children’s artwork on their desk. It has nothing to do with others seeing it - I could care less how my peers feel about the quality of their design or the way that they’ve applied rice and glue to the page - it’s about how proud it makes me that my children are growing up and that they are becoming people of their own right. They made a snowman - with a single sheet of paper, some white glue, a (lot) of rice, and a handful of black beans for buttons, eyes, and a nose. My children made something that I can put on my desk - and every time I look at these pieces I can be proud and realize this is part of the reason that I love my children. One part of so many reasons.
Papa
