You don't need to come there," he said choosing his words carefully. I looked at him perplexed, bewildered, astonished, stunned, horrified, sad and disbelieving all at the same time while calmly responding, "you don't want me to come and have lunch with you at school?" He paused briefly while looking down at his plateful of spaghetti and said, "no mommy. I would kinda be embarrassed."
I sat there stunned holding a forkful of salad suspended in midair while I took a deep breath and realized the day had come. The day my son was embarrassed of me. Where was my little guy who begged me to meet him for lunch and tell me not to sit next to anyone but him? Where was the little boy who still holds my hand while we walked to school? And, most importantly, me an embarrassment?!? Why I never...... But, nonetheless, here I sit staring across the table at this person, who very politely, I might add, told me to get lost. "Can I still come and volunteer in your classroom?" I asked hopefully. "Of course you can mommy! he said cheerfully. "Can you be there everyday?"
So, now I'm confused. Apparently lunch time causes complete and total embarrassment for him. However, my presence in the classrom leaves him completely unaffected. No matter..... I'm not going to waste time trying to figure it out......I'm just going to take what I can get while it last.....sniff....sniff.....
Now that I've wiped my tears away, let's move on to old books.......
And, I mean old. Look at this poetry book. It's a hundred years old. I love holding a book and leafing through the pages knowing that it existed a century ago. People who held this book when it first was published stood in a world where automobiles were the newest gadget.
But my biggest score by far were these books below. Do you see what it is.....It's 8 volumes of sheet music. This is what happens when you have some time on your hands....Instead of telling children to get out from under the clothing racks, you get to look in dark corners where things are hidden. At first, I thought it was a set of Encyclopedias. But, upon further inspection, I realized that it was eight volumes of "The World's Best Music." The first volume was published in 1904-1907.
So of course, my first thought was that I would have sheet music at my ready for the rest of my life. But know I'm kind of scared to tear it apart......I need feedback on this...What would you do?
I also worked on some Halloween cards last night. I had a headache during the day and took a 3 hour nap resulting in tons of energy at 10:00pm. SO I decided to be productive and make some cards to put in my Etsy shop.....
Off to make some more Halloween things...I'm thinking crown........Talk to you soon! Karin
