It’s homecoming season, and one aspect never seems to change: the mothers.
Jaymie Lewis is a parent who crafts all year, but once a year, her craft room is overflowing with supplies for the annual homecoming celebration.
“You just either glue them on the ribbons or up in the flower,” Lewis told me. “My mother started training me when I was a teenager. We worked at a craft store that is no longer here, so I’ve been doing it for approximately that long.”
Each piece has been meticulously cut, stapled, and made. But Jaymie has another reason why she keeps making year after year.
“[My mother] passed about five years ago, but crafting was her passion and that’s kind of moved on to me too,” she told me.
Each mother can spend anything from a few hours to several days putting Lewis together, but it is all worthwhile in the end.
“I do like seeing the girls walking around with them and showing them off,” she told me.
She starts the procedure more than a month before the big game to ensure that all of her mothers match her expectations.
Sherman High School students can wear their inventions to school on Homecoming Day.
“So green and purple are my favorite colors, and I have like a little senior piece right here, and one of them says student body VP, and then I have a Leo Club president one,” Chloe Loy, a senior at Sherman High School, explained.
Students’ mothers mature alongside them as they progress from freshmen to seniors.
“So every year I have a mum, and each year it gets bigger,” Ella Bond, a senior at Sherman High School, explained. “Because this is my senior mother, it’s really huge. They’re normally all supposed to be silver, but I added pink since I love pink, so I gave it my own little twist.”
Each mom provides a unique and distinct story about everyone who participates in the custom.
“I obviously have some football stuff in,” Hayden Brem, a senior at Sherman High School, admitted. “I was nominated for homecoming court in choir. My name is on the right side, and my favorite portion is the one with my [girlfriend’s name].
The school spirit makes its way to the game.
“I think it means a little more something to everyone on the team,” said Sherman Varsity Captain Drew Boston. I mean, my friends and I were just discussing in the locker room this morning about how crucial it is for us to go out there and give it our best tonight.”
Bringing excitement, traditions, and homecoming festivities to Sherman.
