Yet another school request

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Ds has come home tonight with a note asking him to take in a photo of his grandparents tomorrow.

20-30 years ago this probably would not have been an issue but I, like many others don't really have printed photos any more. I have a feeling I might have a photo of mil and one of my Dad saved on the computer but I have no printer ink.

Dh is away so I can't leave the two children ot go out and buy ink.

I tried phoning my parents and the in laws but they don't have one either, well my Dad thinks he has but he is out tonight.

If I had known about this yesterday I could have either gone out and bought ink today or taken the memory card into work and used the work printer.

Ds is now upset because he thinks he won;t be able to do the activity which is in preparation for granparents visit day at school on Friday.

Ecolady is right that schools need to be alert to non-traditional family circumstances. As the GP day is only 2 days away, then the teachers will have a good idea of the GP status of the class and have every opportunity to personalise work as required.

I agree strongly with Tortoise: the day the note appears is not necessarily the day it was sent. If you are going to say anything to the teacher, do find this out at the outset. If it really was only overnight notice, it's worth pointing out the difficulty, not to be awkward, but to encourage them to give a longer timeframe for future projects.

Could he draw a picture from memory, and add photo first thing on Friday?

Do you really not have any printed off photos - not even a wedding one?

I do have pictures of my parents that DD could take to school, but I would be really pissed off that I'd had such little notice.
I am another in the 'generic grandparents camp' I am afraid.

The note was dated 9.2 and said please bring it in "tomorrow"

I have one wedding pic someone took but my mum is virtually unregonisable on it as she is wearing a hat. My wedding album is at their house. We lived with my parents for 6 months whilst our house was being built and lots of stuff is still there. I spent til 12.30am going through boxes last night.

After spending most of the night trawling through the pics on the pc I realised that like betty I have virtually none of my Mum as she runs a mile from cameras. I am not the only one with the problem a mum at school said she had some lovely pics taken at a recent family occasion but they were at her mums house.

Frustratingly I have come into work this morning and sitting on my Dad's desk is a lovely photo of them and the kids.

I managed to print off a couple of not very good photos from when ds was born 7 years ago in black and white on normal A4 paper.