In Little J's preschool the theme of the month is Family. This is actually excellent timing since his grandparents just visited and tomorrow we're having our annual Family Day party. Family Day is really Little J's adoption day (or rather, adoption month, since we couldn't pick a day for our party closer to his actual adoption day in September)but it takes the focus away from just Little J and towards our entire family.

Anyhoo, one of the activities for Family Day was to make a poster about Little J's family. That was as specific as the guidelines got - it was up to the child and his parents as to how it would be executed. We, in typical fashion, happened to turn it in a day late, but in the 4 years my children have gone to this preschool we've never turned the family poster in time. I'd hate to give everyone a nasty shock and turn it in on time this year.

Little J helped me pick out the pictures for his poster. He had the attitude that more is better than less. If it had been up to him we would have included fifty pictures on that poster - but I held the glue stick so it was more limited. There were pictures of the usual folks - me, my husband, Big J, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.

I asked Little J if he wanted to include his Russian family. "Yes!" he said. "Where are the pictures?"

Sadly, I had to tell him there were no pictures of them, but we did write down their names and their ages and put those on the poster.

Then Little J got busy with the glitter glue and the end result was truly fabulous (and we have glitter all over our house...).

The next day the poster went to school. It was hung in a very prominent place - I'm so proud! Everyone sees it when they enter the school. I wonder what people think of the extra names on the poster when they stop to have a look. Do the names make them stop and think? I hope they do.



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