When Janene picked her youngest child up from her first day of kindergarten, she noticed that all of the children were running up to their parents, proudly displaying their drawings — of flowers, hearts, or animals.
When her daughter thrust a picture in her face, the little girl beamed, "It's you and me!"
The photo was of a girl looking up at her mom with a smile. But that, Janene wrote in a hilarious Facebook post on her site I Might Be Funny [1], is where the resemblance ended.
"I looked down at the picture," she wrote. "Of boobs. Really, really big boobs. Yes, my little artist didn't draw hearts or flowers . . . she drew an EXTREMELY inaccurate depiction of her mommy for all the world to see."
She laughed to herself on the drive home: "I was imagining the teacher probably thought Dolly Parton was coming to pick up this child. I bet she was a little surprised when it was just me and my B-cups that strolled through the classroom door that afternoon."
Oddly enough, Janene managed to take an inspiring lesson on self-image away from the stick-figure picture.
"I love this drawing because it is a reminder of how our children can view us so differently than we view ourselves," she said. "Look at me here . . . my boobs are perky, my hair is thick and bouncy, I have a perfect, tiny nose, and my smile is bright. I mean, really, I've never looked better. And if that's how my daughter chooses to see me, I will treasure it forever."