the talented miss p

Usually when the principal of the school calls your parents, the news is not good. This traditional wisdom was recently stood on its head, however, when my sister received a call to say that Eva, 9, had won first place in the Massachusetts Department of Conservation's Forest Fire Control Centennial Poster Contest! The DCR rep is coming to the school to give her an award and a T-shirt with her prize-winning poster printed on it. The principal is thrilled, and so is everyone else including her older sister who gets to miss more school (it's been a very snowy winter) to attend the assembly.