Being The Mom Of A Kindergartner

In all the things I have had to do in my five years of motherhood...I would certainly say that nothing compares to being the mom of a kindergartner. It is stressful and overwhelming at times, but it seems like most days I am left with question marks floating around in my head. She is learning 50 million things at one time so when she gets home at night I have to somehow figure how to balance our usual evening routine with handwriting, reading, math, vocab words and what ever other random projects they may be doing at the time. The part I have found to be the most difficult is going through the mounds of paper she brings home everyday and deciphering what is homework, what was class work, what needs to be returned and how it needs to be done. Brooke is not very good at communicating with me what is expected of her so that leaves me to try to figure it out. This past week she was sent home with a square piece of poster board and attached was a note that stated they would be studying the Three Little Pigs (I am still trying to figure out what there is to "study" about the Three Little Pigs) and they wanted each kindergartner to make a house. The house could be made out of sticks, straw or bricks but it had to fit on the poster board. The note gave examples of houses made in the past like red play dough for bricks....toothpicks for sticks and wheat for straw...anyway you get the idea....well here was my internal dilemma...I could not for the life of me decide weather this "house" was supposed to be glued to the poster board OR if it was supposed to be a 3D house that sat on top of the poster board...I literally went back and forth with my self all weekend. I even asked my friend and she had confirmed what I was thinking.....NO WAY was it supposed to be a 3D house! Did some KINDERGARTNER out there REALLY make a 3D house out of toothpicks??? NO FREAKING WAY!!! So we gathered up some pine needles (straw) and she glued the pine needles on the poster board in the shape of a house complete with a door and a window...then when it dried she colored the whole thing like she wanted it. I thought it looked pretty good so I put it in her back pack and dropped her off at school...as I was getting ready to leave I looked in my rear view mirror to see a little girl carrying a two story mansion on top of her poster bored....you are kidding me right??? So now I am wondering did we do the project wrong or is that girls mom Martha Stewart? Should I email the teacher or just leave it alone...after all she is in Kindergarten what do they really expect from her...it wasn't MY project. This whole experience has left me rather worried because if a kindergarten project can stress me out this much I am not sure I will last for the remaining 12 years she is in school.