Christmas Card Deja Vu

Have you ordered Christmas cards yet?  If you are a parent with kids at nursery, pre-school or primary school you may have been sent the latest designs by your kids. Our lot make some terrible cards.  This is the first year I've declined - I simply couldn't bring myself to subject the world to my daughters hilarious Christmas card.

How could the pre-school have done this to her?  Jane simply loves drawing and she's quite good at it too.  She really looks at things and draws what she sees.  It's in big contrast to how her brothers draw.

Anthony has been drawing people the same way for the last four years - everyone looks like a potato with candyfloss arms and legs.  David is really only just starting to make shapes.  Both boys have autism and are late developers in terms of their motor skills and imagination - helpful skills when drawing and doing things like making Christmas cards.

So when their efforts arrived in their respective bags, I was, as always, proud and delighted.  No not Picasso, but thankfully Father Christmas is naturally potato shaped.  Packs of their cards were ordered. But when I saw Jane's I was stopped in my tracks - surely not.

I couldn't stop laughing.  Like many kids her age, Jane eats some things she's not supposed to.  Early on in her life after the (slightly scary) dishwasher tablet incident, I realised that what goes in, mostly just comes out again.  Eat sand... gritty poop.  Eat 'safe' blue paint.... purple poop.  And apparently, eat glitter and you ... produce a Christmas card.

OK.  It's supposed to be a Christmas pudding, I get it.  But I couldn't see anything other than poop on paper.   Did they mix up the changing room discards with the art pile?  I've definitely seen this same design inside a nappy.  Crumbs, it wasn't that long ago I may even have found it on the bathroom walls.

My humorous side had ideas of sending the cards out.

Hey, you've not just been bad enough to get coal!
Merry Christmas - here's a copy of my daughter's pooh. 

Maybe not. Instead I just giggled to myself and stuck it to the fridge.  I'll be giggling at it all week I think and this little deja vu can at least provide me with some chuckles during the upcoming busiest days of the year too.  Plus, having it up still tells our daughter that her art is loved.. even if only by us.

Have you had any humorous art sent home? What cards are you sending out this year?

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