Jaderbug Nightmare #1

I am the mother of an adorable, precocious five-year-old spitfire named "Jaderbug."

While cleaning out her backpack each evening, I often find works of art she has created during her free time at school. It has not escaped my attention that, in these pictures, I am characterized with eyes bugged out, lips pinched, and eyebrows that look like this: \ /.

It's not a good look for me. Sadly, this is often the last look she sees on my face each day as she and her brother fist-fight their way to our van for the trek to school.

I stress out easily.

So I felt a lot better today when I got this picture and joke on the email from a friend of mine:



A first-grade girl handed in the above picture as a homework assignment. The teacher graded it, and the child took it home.

She returned to school the next day with the following note:

Dear Ms. Davis,

I want to be perfectly clear on my child's homework illustration. It is NOT of me on a dance pole on a stage in a strip joint surrounded by male customers with money. I work at Home Depot and had commented to my daughter how much money we made during the recent snowstorm. This drawing is of me selling a shovel.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Harrington


Dear Mrs. Harrington,

I can relate. That is why your daughter's picture is my Jaderbug Nightmare #1.

Still Laughing,

ClareMom