That's a hat?

Easter hat parades are a time of year for parents to get weepy behind cameras whilst their offspring march about the school grounds displaying creatable artwork perched upon their heads. Naturally, proud and loving mom as I was, my son was star of the show for me. Also naturally, he did not tell me about the Easter hat parade, or the necessity for him to have a hat to wear at it, until the night before the event. Somehow, he had not bought home the leaflet that mentioned it.

Panic set in - he needed a headpiece on the very next day! Luckily, I did not work at the time, nor have anything more pressing than a TV show, dinner, and a couple of letters to be written. I was able to search our cabin for some card, scissors, and other appropriate materials. I then got busy!

The creation that I created was perhaps somewhat over the top, and not just of my son's head. I ended up making a white card 'item' that can only be described as - imaginative - if described politely. It resembled a large and white paper top hat, with fluffy wooly things sitting on it, a ribbon to hold it in place under the chin, and an assortment of chocolate related wrappers stuck to it. Perhaps it could be said to resemble an inside out trashcan after a choc-fest.

My son was far from impressed, but happier to have 'something' rather than nothing. I was grateful to have managed to create 'something' at such short notice. I went along to the parade with my camera, and watched my son walk around the schoolyard twice in line. He did not win a prize, nor seem very happy under this huge monster of a creation. In fact, he looked somewhat ridiculous. It made me somewhat tearful as the others in fancy shop-purchased festive hats, whilst my son walked past, gloomily if proudly, in his paper, card, and chocolate-wrapper disaster.

My son was definitely not the star of the show - however, the hat might well be claiming the title if the show had been asking for creative disasters rather than Easter hats! Luckily, this song of Fee's saved my smile, if not my son's day. Fee might wear more sensible gear when performing solo, but when in his band - the Tubes - he wears some pretty ridiculous gear. My son was far from impressed by being likened to yet another musician, however.