When Brinn Williams received a text from her daughter’s school principal on Wednesday, she was unprepared for what would be shared.
“The minute her school texted me, I was like, ‘Oh no, Ruby is sick,'” the 33-year-old mom in downtown Nebraska told TODAY Parents.
It turned out that Ruby’s teacher was curious about a map the little girl had taken to preschool.
“Ruby likes to draw and color and make cards for everyone,” Williams said. “Last night she asked if she could use some of my stationery. I have rainbow stationery, so I was like, ‘Sure, go ahead.'”
Williams said she forgot she had a box of cards on her desk.
“She goes and does this almost every night so I had no reason to believe the card wouldn’t look the way it normally does,” Williams said. “I didn’t look at it before she put it in her backpack.”
So when Williams got a text about the map, she was a little nervous.
“I think she was hoping I connected the dots myself,” Williams captioned the text.
The preschooler had indeed skipped the rainbow cards for something more colorful.
“A best friend you can have sex with,” read the outside of the card intended for adults. “How great is that?”
“I was like, ‘Oh my god, I’m so sorry, I’m ashamed,'” Williams said. “I see these things happen to other parents and I’m like, ‘Yeah, that’s not really happening.’ And now I’m like, ‘Well, yes, it does, because I’m seeing it first hand now.'”
The school principal told Williams it made her laugh.
“Ruby was adamant that she asked permission to use it and the teacher said, ‘Are we sure?'” Williams said. “I did confirm that Ruby has requested permission, I just haven’t checked her work.”
But it gets better.
“The school program director is my husband’s boss’s wife,” Williams told TODAY, adding that her husband, Josh, was mortified. “I thought he was going to die.”
Williams guessed what attracted her daughter to this particular card.
“She can’t read, but I think she saw a card with lots of blanks to take her picture,” Williams explains. “In the card she wrote ‘I love you,’ so she knows how to write some words.”
To avoid future artistic mishaps, Williams plans to create a special space for Ruby.
“I’m going to tell her, ‘Hey, I’ll show you the box of stationery you can pull out and that’s the box you can use for cards,'” Williams said.
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