Elliot is over the moon excited that we just found out that her artwork was selected to be on the cover of her elementary school's handbook for this year. There was a school wide optional contest and Elliot worked hard on her drawing. It then sat around for a week and on the last day to submit an entry, I remembered we did not turn it in. It was 5PM. I had a fever. It was POURING rain. Patty had gone home. Kassi & Ben were no where near home. And I forgot the school was unlocked for the after-care program...so I told Elliot forget it, we'd just enter next year. She was crushed. I mean, she is in kindergarten, she made the picture, it was not her job to remember to turn it in - it was mine.
She had forgotten about the contest, but now it was the biggest most devastating thing ever to not be a part. So I sucked it up, buckled all 3 of them into car seats while I stood in the sheets of rain - drove the 3 blocks to the school, broke the law by leaving them all strapped in the car in the parking lot (do I leave the keys in with the AC on and risk them being driven away, or lock the car, take the keys and hope nobody notices them in the tinted windows? I don't remember which I chose) while I ran into the side door of the school and coolly slipped her artwork into the overflowing envelope. This was last May. We totally forgot about it. And then we got the message below. If you click on the "click here" it will take you to the PDF of the whole handbook and Elliot's is on the front cover. Oh wait, Ben figured out how to post it:
Yay Elliot!
PS - Ben and I need to stop making fun of the editors who let slip the "Your never a Stanger at Angier" on last year's cover. "Hello Kettle? It's the Pot. You are black."
