Comments on: Amazing Young Talent

By: Kate

Kate — Fri, 30 May 2008 01:44:36 +0000

I’ve kept little books they each made, but we moved so many many times that I’ve lost some things I was safe-keeping. It’s unfortunate, but I have pictures. Lots and lots of pictures. And a couple of blankets, and hand-knit sweaters that their grandmother made with British knitting patterns. Special stuff.

Sweet post.

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:52:19 +0000

You kept them because your sons made them! I have a lavender clay vase on my night stand that my now 23-year-old son made at age 5. Rhett’s pasta necklaces are in a bathroom drawer … and he graduates in two weeks. I’m thinking about wearing them … seriously!

By: Michelle Willingham

Michelle Willingham — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:43:34 +0000

Oh, I love those! I’ve been keeping my son’s short stories. They’re a scream (future blackmail material…).

By: Melissa Marsh

Melissa Marsh — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:16:50 +0000

Oh goodness! I have kept practically ever single drawing that my daughter has done. I’m running out of room!

By: Tracey

Tracey — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:54:10 +0000

Yes! And it drives my hubby nuts. I put all of their drawings into a big plastic storage tub and every year we sit and go through it and laugh!

I even still have a ceramic leaf I made in art class in 5th grade out on display. And that was a LONG time ago!

By: Shimmy Mom

Shimmy Mom — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:23:33 +0000

That’s awesome. I think we as moms always find something from our children’s childhood to hang on to. I have each of my children’s favorite “blankies” from when they were infants and toddlers. My mother-in-law still has a ceramic snowman that my hubby made very early in elementary school. She puts it on the mantle with the stockings every Christmas!

By: Amy Addison

Amy Addison — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:34:12 +0000

I usually keep one or two things from each year. There is the wooden spoon that was turned into a kitchen bear in Kindergarten, the oil pastel drawing of a gymnast en cartwheel done in 2nd grade, a small pottery bowl that keeps rings from getting lost, done in 3rd….

Love the boys’ dinosaurs.

By: Treasia

Treasia — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:44:16 +0000

To have been in kindergarten those boys were/are quite talented. The things my kids made then were unrecognizable. I had to wait till they told me what it was.

We have a steamer trunk filled with things from all of our kids.

By: sarah bean

sarah bean — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:53:31 +0000

aww, that is the sweetest thing i’ve read today

By: Mental P Mama

Mental P Mama — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:51:48 +0000

Oh Kacey, I have so many of them I had to clear a whole shelf in a cabinet. I can’t bring myself to toss them, though. I think you have given me my ‘motherhood’ idea, though! Thanks!