My girls out awards at school today. They were very excited to get them. For Maggie, it was her very first school award & Killi is always excited about getting awards, but who isnʻt:) Maggie received her award for responsibility, yes I know, Stop laughing now...Yes, she does take after her Aunt Megan and is a completely different child at school than at home. I am very proud of her and I am glad she knows the correct way to act and does sometimes:)
Now for Killi. Drum-roll please, wait...Not needed, this is the same and only award she has ever won. 3 years in a row now! Kindergarten, 1st grade and now 2nd grade...OUTSTANDING EFFORT AWARD! For those of you that do not have children or at least not children at the same school as mine, let me break this award down for you. This award is better known as the YOU REALLY CANNOT DO ANYTHING WELL, BUT HECK YOUʻRE NICE AND SWEET AND YOU DO KEEP TRYING AWARD. And maybe this is not the case for every student that receives this award, but in my world that is how it feels.
I hear ALL the time how sweet and kind my Killi is. How she works so hard, but still cannot keep her head-above-water. How she is always the first to help others. And the only Award she can manage is OUTSTANDING EFFORT?
I know that some people will read this and not understand why I am upset so let me lay it out Jersey Style....To me this award is like hearing "We are going out tonight and in case you forgot, YOU ARE the grenade". Iʻm just sayinʻ, thatʻs how it feels to me.
Now to be fair, Killi does not seem to get that yet and she is still just happy to be receiving an award and that I get to come to school to see her receive it. And I am not sure she will ever see it the way I do, because she is a sweet, kind, innocent, perfect girl:)
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