It's a week before Christmas and for once we are 89% done with our shopping. This is kind of amazing, considering I have less time than ever before; so either I am becoming increasingly more efficient or I am ordering so much stuff online that the UPS man is ready to throw rocks through my window. I'm not telling which choice is correct.
In our gifting, we could not forget Eli's teachers. I asked him to make a card for each of them to accompany his gift. I believe in artistic freedom so I didn't give him guidelines (I'm so New Age). Perhaps I should have. Apparently, to Eli a Christmas card means drawing a picture of Saturn, an alien (which looks remarkably like Woodstock from Charlie Brown), a flower and best of all... a rocket.
Now I know my sister would say to me, "To the pure, all things are pure" but I'm having a bit of trouble with this one. I honestly don't think this picture could be more offensive if it was planned (it would not be planned by my son!).
So what now? Eli was almost too tired to make this card, so asking him to make something else was out of the question. Should I tape a black box on top of the rocket? Should I hope his teacher won't notice (and then really hope she doesn't display this somewhere!)?
My laziness and preference for the ridiculous is leaning toward sending it as it is... Does this make me a terrible mom? It is all together likely. But does it also make me someone who will laugh all day tomorrow? Yes, absolutely.
Here is the front of the card. I hope it doesn't get me flagged for obscenity.
I loved this card!
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