Yard Time

This sign may look a little strange to you.  That is because I (probably unnecessarily) went all crazy and blurred most of it out.  One day while Amelia was supposed to be napping, she came barging into my room and said, "Mom! Someone just drove up, stuck a sign in our yard, and drove away!".  I was pretty miffed about her account of events, so we headed outside to investigate.  As it turns out, her new school stuck a sign in our yard welcoming us to our new "school family".  She was pretty excited and had many questions about how "they" knew where she lived and how "they" knew she was going to that school.  The sign stayed in our yard all the way until the first day of school and was a special reminder about the big change ahead every time we saw it.  It was a very sad day when Amelia saw me loading the sign up to turn it back in at her school.  She was under the impression she could "keep it forever" and "hang it in my room" (?).