Ms Fifikins

When Immy started Prep we went all out for a hat. We raided the Sunday School cupboard and had feathers and flowers and little chickens and stuck little eggs all over some paper plate constructed thing. All with a big bow. She was thrilled with it.

The next year we did cardboard I think, shaped like a butterfly with egg wrappers for decoration. Ate the eggs on the way you see. Can’t remember her year 2 one, but it would have involved some effort. Then she hit middle primary and no more hats. But Jasper starts school!

Prep we got the huge sombrero, spray painted it green and stuck little chickens over it with a hot glue gun. Last year we hung Easter eggs like corks around his hat and this year I forgot about it until he was going to bed Wednesday night. Mother of the year award for me! So I ask him what he wants to do. Mentally I am picturing what I have and thinking that perhaps sometimes life was easier with a Sunday School cupboard!

Then Jasper starts laughing. He has a wicked laugh. He is laughing so much he can hardly talk. He is clapping and almost crying. This must be a good idea… “I know… hehe, Mum this is brilliant… hehe” I am hoping it doesn’t involve breaking into Spotlight at 8pm. “Mum, hehe, you’re going to love this… hehe… it is soooooo funny…” C’mon lad, spit it out! “We can go to google and get pictures of like Star Wars and Dr Who people and then draw bunny ears on them and glue them to a hat.” OK, I tell him. Leave the pictures with me and you go to bed and in the morning, before school, you can cut them out and decorate them if you wish.

So I googled. Found some very interesting images… Make sure the kids never use my laptop as the safe search function is off… Suitable ones were printed. He woke up early and decorated. Again more laughter when he declared that the bunny ears looked like poo because he used the brown pencil.

So he drew and cut and then I found some PVA glue and an old hat that mum had left up here.

This is the result:

I so hope the other mothers who were there (the ones who didn’t have to go to work yesterday) didn’t think that I had made it… You can tell the ones who have been made by parents… He was pleased with it. That is the main thing.

I told a colleague at work what had happened and he thought I had scarred my son for life letting him go with Dr Who and Star Wars. I reminded him that indeed the geeks will inherit the earth… That is a good enough Easter message I think.

Thank whoever he is hitting middle primary next year and there will be no more hats!