green rag

The first week of school Grace came home with this.




I immediately assumed it was some sort of craft project. You know. All the kids use cloth pens and the assistant compiles the squares to make a quilt for the teacher? That's what I was thinking, anyways. So I stash the random rag somewhere in my house and await further xerox on clip art paper instructions. No news.

Then I get an email from her teacher.

"Hi Everyone! We had quite a few questions about the cloth with your child's name on it we sent home in the folders. Those are cloth napkins that one of our parents made for each child. I hope that you will send it into the school with your child's snack often. Thanks Mom for helping us be a little greener!"

Of course!! How silly of me. I then reread the start of the year letter which recommended packing a napkin each day for you child's snack. I never had. So the green rag just stayed stashed. Until...

Grace says to me, "Mommy, can I pleeeaase have this with my snack? Allll the other kids have one!"

Only in Cville.