I think I’ve got two weeks of after work time to pack up our whole house and move to mid-town. The packing would go much more quickly if the King of Everything would stop stealing my boxes. Currently, he is doing cartwheels through the house inside the box.
Doubt me, do you?
He begged me for days for a box to play in… since I don’t have a car, it’s difficult to get boxes to the house, and these were delivered by the coolest mom in the universe, my own mama. But in the end, I sacrificed one box to the greater good, and it’s all the kid has played with since. It’s a reminder that sometimes, the simplest gifts are the best gifts, and being able to buy the biggest and best doesn’t always mean you’re giving your child what he or she really needs. I hear so often from single mothers who are struggling to make ends meet, and who feel terribly guilty that they can’t even think of competing with the Joneses. Relax. If your children have food in their bellies, a watertight roof over their heads, and clothes to keep them warm in the winter and cool in the summer, and a mama who knows how to make something out of nothing, like a cardboard box, a little love, and a lot of imagination… they are doing all right.
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