Dear Teachers....

When I was in elementary school I don't remember bringing home every worksheet, drawing, and doodle. The boys bring home pounds of paper every week. I sort though the sheets and try to pull the things that need action. I'm left with a pile of precious treasures (ha). I tried saving all of these pages. I got a big Rubbermaid container with the plan of saving all the papers and then putting a year on the outside of the container. Well 2 months into this plan the container was overflowing. I pictured an attic full of containers filled with paper. Seems like a fire hazard. I abandoned this plan.

Now I wait until the boys are asleep and then sneak around like a thief in the night to dump them in the trash and destroy the evidence. First I just put it in the trash can, then I usually cover it up with other trash. Then I go back and take the trash out. Inevitably I run into a parent who has dutifily created beautiful scrapbooks with these papers. The guilt eats at me until I again consider new processes to catalog the influx of papers. It NEVER WORKS!

Dear Teachers, please toss most of the papers for me, I can't take it! :-)