The "I Was Happy, But Sad" Story

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It was an ordinary day.  Laughing with my wife after just pinning a new photo to our "Fun" board on Pinterest.  If you are a fan of Pinterest you know what I am talking about, but if not, Pinterest is a visual discovery tool that you can use to find ideas for all your projects and interests.  After you set up an account you can start to pin photos from others to your boards or you can add your own photos.  If you care to start your own account, just Google Pinterest and follow the directions.  You'll have a fun time, but prepared to get hooked on the site.  Well, the pin my wife put on our fun board was a drawing that a grade school little girl had made of her mother.  The picture she drew looks as if her mother is doing a pole dance and men are all around her offering money to her.  The words that she added were:  When I Grow up ... I want to be like mommy!  I have posted the picture so you can see it as well as read the letter that the girl's mother wrote to her teacher, Mrs. Jones.  After Carol and I stopped laughing she said, "Remember when that happened to us?"  Wasn't sure until she began to tell her story about when our daughter was in elementary school and had an assignment in her 1st grade class.  She had to write and add an accompanied drawing about:  I was happy about ......  but I was sad about ......  Her teacher was Mrs. Stoner and when we went in to visit we got to see the picture hanging on the wall of her classroom with the accompanying story.  Picture was of her cat Gladys whom she had received for Christmas from Santa.  Words on the top were:  I was happy when I got my cat for Christmas .... and underneath the drawing said:  But sad because she was in heat. Our daughter had drawn spray droplets coming from the rear of the cat and running down the wall in the drawing. We were sure she had no idea what being in heat meant at the time, but she was sad about it.  I think my wife was somewhat embarrassed by the drawing, but I couldn't stop laughing.  Our daughter did such a great job with the drawing and she was proud of what she had drawn.  After returning home from out meeting with Mrs. Stoner we told our daughter that we saw her drawing on the wall and thought she did a good job, but maybe she shouldn't draw anymore photos of her cat.  Oh the joys of parenthood.  It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.