NAPERVILLE, IL — A Naperville mother discovered this week that she personally signed all four of her children’s summer reading logs in July 2021, verified each entry in blue ink, and filed them in a manila folder labeled “DONE” — where they remained, unsubmitted, until surfacing during a junk drawer cleanout Saturday morning.

Renee Calloway, 41, confirmed she has no memory of the filing decision, no explanation for the folder label, and no surviving record of what she believed she had accomplished by completing this step. The library’s summer reading prize deadline was August 7, 2021. The folder was discovered May 1, 2026.

“I clearly felt very good about this at some point,” Calloway said, holding the folder. “Someone in this house was absolutely on top of things in July 2021 and I genuinely cannot account for her.”

Tucked behind the logs was a printed certificate for a free personal pan pizza from a chain promotion that expired in September 2021, awarded to her son Tyler, 13, for completing eight books at age eight. Tyler confirmed he does not remember reading any of them.

“The folder was labeled ‘DONE.’ I thought it was done. That’s the whole thing.”

Calloway’s husband, Greg, 43, noted that the same junk drawer also contained a completed pediatric vision screening referral from 2022, a rebate form worth $35 that expired in 2023, and what appeared to be a permission slip for a field trip that may or may not have already occurred.

At press time, Calloway had refolded the reading logs, returned them to the drawer, and relabeled the folder “LOOK AT THIS LATER.”