Tyler Homeschool

When I was a little girl, I loved drawing and coloring a picture for my mom. I was pretty proud of one particular picture. A few moments later I saw it in the trash. I was upset. I didn’t reason out in my head what my mom would do with all of the stuff I made her. After seeing one thing after another being thrown away I stopped drawing and thought to myself that coloring and art is for little kids and when you get older you’re not supposed to color.

Now I’m doing art and crafts with my child. I find myself thinking, “what do I do with all of these papers?” Most pages have a couple scribbles and a sticker. Am I going to be a hoarder and keep all of it or throw them away? Surely I can’t keep all of them. Who does that? I have to throw it away and if he’s upset then he will have to get over it, right? I asked my mother-in-love what she did with my husbands pictures when he was little and she actually still has a whole bunch. She put them in a filing drawer. I thought that was a good idea.

A few days later I found a frame at WalMart that can be easily opened and closed. I bought it and am trying it out. Each day I have been putting his new picture in it. His old one I can take out and put in a file folder. I realize that someday I’ll have to go through the file folders and throw away most of the pictures. But I’m saving that day for later and will try to throw pictures away when he can’t see me doing it. I’ll hold onto the special ones.

So for the question to keep or throw away, I have decided to keep, for now anyway.