Five Minute Friday: Photo Prompt
Friday, January 14, 2011 at 2:40PM
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Children in a box. So many connotations, depending on the moment, or really, my mood. I read a blog yesterday that had a woman admitting that she fantasized about sending her constant-question-asking daughter off in an envelope until she is 18. I wondered how she planned on getting her back then, but her point was WELL taken. I have my days when I would like to put my children in a box and ship them to grandma’s house or their aunt’s house or pretty much any house other than my own.
But not in this picture. Not in this moment. These shining faces (2 of them are my children’s smiles, one is our adopted neighbor boy – we adopted each other’s families and our sons are either at our house or theirs, but almost always together. I highly recommend finding adoptive families next door) conjure the warm feeling of childhood bliss. Of finding the extraordinary (this is a vessel of travel) in the ordinary (cardboard box). The box contained in it, in addition to these treasures, something even more valuable to them – Styrofoam peanuts!
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